I love the cute animals in this stamp set. When I first got my set, I thought one of the stamps was a monkey or a bear… turns out that it was neither. It was a lion. However because the animals involve 2 step stamping, I.e. stamp the bodies and heads separately, you can do a lot with them.

To make the mouse, I stamped the lion’s body and head in basic grey ink. I cut off the lion’s ears. Then I stamped the koala’s head so that I could use the ears only for my mouse. The face is the lion’s face with whiskers added using a fine tip marker.

The cheese is made using the present stamp. It was stamped twice with image lined up to make one big present, then die cut using the party hat die to make a wedge of swiss cheese.