Zoo Crew – Birthday

Hi! Welcome back.  Working with the Facebook Case-ing Tuesday (#407) sketch.  A week late, but taking inspiration from the Stampin’ Up! Catalog Samples never gets old.

Several other challenges were incorporated into my design decisions: Double Trouble (#138) partnering with Crafter’s Café (#297) to use stashed crafting materials, a Kraft Paper Bag and incorporate Animals. This ties into The Male Room (#174) Animal theme.  For Use Your Stuff (#484), I used the Kraft Paper Bag as a source for one of the techniques I employed.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Pecan Pie cardstock.
• Background Panel: (3⅞” x 5¼”) Kraft Paper Bag trimmed and die-cut with the largest Rectangle die from the On-Line Exclusives Radiating Stitches Dies set. (Technique One – Die-Cutting)
• Flag Banner Bits: (4” x 1½”) Multi-Colored Chevron Dashed patterned piece of paper from the Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper Pack.
  • The paper strip was cut into four (1”) pieces.  The reverse side is a Lemon-Lime Twist Watercolor pattern.
  • The four pieces were hand flagged with Paper Snips.
• Accent Rectangle (3” x 3⅞”) Boho Blue cardstock.
  • The cardstock was stamped with Boho Blue ink with a scrunched-up piece of the Kraft Paper Bag used as a stamp. (Technique Two – Creating Your Own Stamp).
• Focal Image: (2¼” x 3⅛”) Basic White cardstock and (1¼” x 2½”) clipped image of the Celebrating Pooch from one of the sheets found in the Zoo Crew Designer Series Paper pack.
  • The clipped image was adhered to the Basic White cardstock piece and the entire image was dry-embossed with the retired Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. (Technique Three – Paper Quilting with Embossing Folders)
• Sentiment Banner – (2⅞” x ½”) Lemon-Lime Twist Watercolor patterned paper from the Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper pack.
  • The bolder Happy Birthday sentiment from the retired Best Day stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with Black Embossing Powder.
  • The sentiment was die-cut with the Double Flagged Banner die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.

Below is an image of the Stamping Technique:

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Banner was popped up with Dimensionals.

That little Pooch looks like his is having a great time celebrating your birthday!

Thank you for spending a bit more of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda!

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