Mikey Mouse

When Spellbinders recently released the Say Cheese Classic Mouse collection and I watched Tim Holtz having a play with them, I decided I needed them in my stash.  They are so cute!  Disney are very strict about copyright so I was surprised to see these until I discovered that they are based upon the Steamboat Willie characters, which were released from copyright into the public domain worldwide earlier this year.

I was making this card for a male friend’s birthday – it’s great to have another set that I can easily use for bloke’s cards.  There are several arm variations and a couple of tail options so I selected which to use and did all my die-cutting first.

The dies cut really well and have debossed areas to indicate where to line up the various parts.  The section to make the tongue is marked ‘mouth’ which is very handy too.  That would have had me scratching my head for a while!

Assembly was very straightforward and within a couple of minutes, I had my very own mouse!

The Classic Mouse Alphabet and Numbers & Punctuation sets in the collection are really great too.  It’s a nice, chunky font so ideal for using foam tape behind for dimension.  There is also a Flags & Banners set too which I wanted to use behind the numbers.

To make the background, I die-cut the stars from the Frame & Sentiments set and glued them onto a piece of white card for some faux-embossing, trimming off the overhanging stars.

The final step was to assemble all the parts.  The name and mouse were attached using thin foam tape and the mouse attached so that he was standing on the ‘K’.  The numbers were attached to the banners using foam tape and then glued directly onto the panel.  A double blue and black mat finished off the card.