I cut the layers out, some being quite intricate in places, and layered them up using 3D 1mm foam. The intricate parts mainly the mice's tails were glued down with PVA glue. The image was mat and layered on to coordinating card stock of orange and blue to match the chair detail.
The sender also requested an easel style card, as the main image was quite large, I created a card size 6" x 6.5" from white card stock. Orange card stock was mounted onto the white base card on two sides.
The sender indicated the wording she would like on the card so this was printed on to white card stock and cut into a strip with a small gap in the middle for an embellishment to be added.
I created a piece of knitting by knitting with embroidery silk (to match the image) on the smallest size needles I had and then transferred the stitches onto a cocktail stick. The ends of the cocktail sticks were snipped with scissors to remove the sharp point and the other end was cut to leave an appropriate sized needle. The ends of the needles were created by wrapping white strips of paper 3mm in width (like quilling) around the ends gluing the whole time til the correct size was formed, when dry these where coloured using Sandstone Promarker to match the colour of the cocktail stick. The needles and knitting where glued to the message strip in the middle using silicon glue.
Due to the height of the decoupage and the added embellishment and the size of card created I made a box envelope using the Crafters Companion Envelobox Creator so the card will not be damaged or squashed in a standard flat envelope.
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