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This Little Piggy

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It was Valentine’s Day on Friday and whilst we don’t buy big presents or go out and get fleeced for a distinctly average meal, I do enjoy making a card for Mr L.  He generally gets his crafting on and asks for access to my craft room to make me a card too – which I LOVE! I don’t get many handmade cards.  I’ve just got the This Little Piggy set and thought it would be perfect to use for my card using the mirror stamping technique.  I wrote this  post last March on how to do this technique, if you’d like a refresh. To begin, I mirror stamped my pigs. Next, I coloured them in using some alcohol markers and also drew in some more grass in the gap in the middle to unite the two images. I then stamped the pig on the front and back of a post-it note and cut around them to create two masks. Note: The ink stamped on the adhesive on the back of the note stayed wet for a long time so I repeatedly pressed the adhesive part on scrap paper. Using the bunch of hearts from F...