SOS: Forest Friends

This week at Shopping Our Stash, we are encouraging you, deer crafter, to create something including our forest friends.

I'm honored to be hosting a true friend's baby shower!

Here are the invitations:

Here are some images of the process:

Some turned out better than others...

You can see where I modified the block, and I tried to show this by blacking out the stars on the front.  I then took a trio of cut stars and glued them to a cork for a mini-stamp. 

Supplies:

• Hand-carved deer stamp from pink Speedball rubber and Stampin Up! tools.  Stamp inked with Tim's Mixed Media palette in Vintage Photo and "kissed" onto an old wood-grain stamp by All Night Media
• The stitched circle die is from Autumn at Sew Paper Paint; I wrote the greeting with a Micron pen... not sure which width this is-- I tried a few different weights, but liked these with the finer tip.
• The stars are from a Dyan Reaveley Dylusions stamp that I love, but seldom use... until now!  I finally realized I needed to modify the stamp to work for me!  I cut some of the stars off to make the stars more free-form in shape, instead of the rectangular group that they were.  This was inked with Story Sky DI, tapped-off once then used twice in the process.
• The pine sprays were hand-brushed with the Ranger waterbrush in Forest Moss DI.  I recently purchased two new waterbrushes, but they are still in their package.  I still wonder: why so expensive???

Thank you for joining us at Shopping Our Stash this week!  I am interested to see the stash items you find!  C'mon... I know you all have foxes and deer and bears... oh my!