Wild Birthday Card

This card is being entered in the Perfectly Rustics – PR Design Challenge No. 39 – Animals, where we are to “go wild” with animals in our creations. (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2015/01/12/prdc-no-39-animals/)

In addition to the animal fur prints on the outside of my card, I also included some giraffes on the inside.

For this card, I used the “WILD” stamp from the Playful Posh Jungle set (retired?).  This “Wild” stamp is vertical, and all the letters are attached on the same stamp.  This was problematic because each letter had a different, solid animal print so each letter needed to be a different color.  I could have done a bit of masking I suppose, but I ended up just inking and stamping it four times in the colors I needed.  Then, I hand cut the one letter from each of them (and the black mats) and adhered them to my banner pannels.  Additional stamps used came from the Gina K Designs “Stamp It Big” set, “A Beautiful Life” set, “Keep Calm” set, the “Frame and Filler” duo, and the exclamation point came from a Gina K grab bag (I think from the “Little Tees” set – retired?).

The banner was made with dies from the Sizzix Triplits Pkg-Banner Dies.  I stamped my images and inked my edges with Gina K dark chocolate, warm cocoa, and honey mustard inks along with Memento tuxedo black and potters clay.  The “have a” and “birthday” were stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed using the Recollections champagne embossing powder.

The card stock I used was Gina K warm cocoa, sandy beach and black.  The giraffe printed paper on the inside is Hot off the Press Paper Pizzazz Wild Things Giraffe.

The cool zebra paper on the front of the card was purchased in a store near me called Tuesday Morning where they sell a variety of discounted and closeout items, including crafting supplies.  This particular paper was in a pack that did not have an original label so I have no idea where it came from, but their store label said it was handmade paper made in India.  It has such a cool texture and looks amazing in real life!  I love stopping into this store periodically because you never know what they will have on any given day, and I usually find neat things at a great price.

Since I’ve never used this handmade paper or the WILD stamp (or anything from the set) before, I am also entering this card in the NBUS (never-before-used-schtuff) Challenge at djkardkreations.com. http://www.djkardkreations.com/2015/01/happy-new-year-2015-nbus-challenge-3.html

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Nautical Birthday Card

Hmmm… water, a button, and a raised frame with a recesses image.  These are the requirements for the challenges I had in mind when I made this card!

It is being entered in the StampTV MIUM Challenge – STV14MON40 – “Over the Deep Blue Sea”   where, in honor of Columbus Day, we were to make a water themed card.  We could use nautical images, rain, snow… anything that has water.  (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

It is also being entered in the Mod Squad Challenge “Who’s Got the Button?” where we were create a card with a button on it.  A real button, not just a paper one, or one in the image.  (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

For this card, I used stamps from the Gina K Designs “By The Sea 2” and “Follow Your Dreams” sets. The ink was Gina K charcoal brown.  Card stock used was Gina K Designs charcoal brown, blue denim, and little boy blue.  The patterned paper came from the Gina K Designs “Pool Side” paper pack, the BasicGrey  “Little Black Dress” paper pad, and a scrap of cloud paper I had in my stash (either Recollections or DCWV – not sure!).  The button and jute were from my stash.

I used long strips of Scotch mounting foam tape to pop up the frame.  Since the frame was so thin and the tape could be seen at an angle, I needed to color the sides of the tape with Copic Marker W7 so it blended better.  (It was white and looked awful with all the warm tones!)

The frame was cut with my Fiskars trimmer since I did not have a die in the correct size for my card. The blade on this trimmer has little notches on the side and there is a ruler printed on the plastic part on which the blade slides back and forth which allows you to cut an interior line at a precise measurement .

I used a Creative Memories double square punch to create my “sand, sea and sky” panels.

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