This card was made to celebrate Simon Says Stamp! Stamptember with Riley & Company’s The Dog Life stamp set and coordinating dies. It also uses pop-up dies by Karen Burniston.
Watch the video to see how this card was made.
Woven Basket: The base of this basket card that can fold flat, is Karen Burniston’s Woven Basket Box Card. The grass inside is also from the same set. For assemble see video above. A black alcohol marker was used on the coated gold cardstock to make the nail heads on the basket frame.
Sentiments: The main sentiment on the card was stamped in black ink and die cut using the coordinating dies in The Dog Life stamp set. It is on the round stem piece from the Bouquet Bits die set. The white fancy label on the basket back is for a personal message and is cut using the fancy label die in the Triple Platform Pop-Up set.
Tree: The tree was cut from some doubled-sided scrap patterned papers using the Tree Pop-Up die set.
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Materials Used:
Dies
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Triple Platform Pop-Up – 1300
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Bouquet Bits – 1293
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Woven Basket Box Card – 1080
- Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Tree Pop-Up – 1005
- Simon Says Stamp! – Riley and Company – Coordinating Dies – The Dog Life – 1463sdc
Stamps
- Simon Says Stamp! – Riley and Company – Clear Stamps – The Dog Life -3319ssc
Papers
- Brown and Green Patterned Cardstock Scraps
- Green and White Cardstock
- Park Lane – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Gold Shimmer Sheets
- White 4×6-inch Catalog Envelope
Ink
- American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver
- Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
- Nuvo – Highly Pigmented Watercolour Pencils – Brilliantly Vibrant and Hair & Skin Tones
- Pigma – Mircon 01Fine Tip Pen – Black
- Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black
Adhesives
Tools
- Die Cutting Machine
- Stamping Platform
- Brutus Monroe – Stick & Stamp Mat
- LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
- Stamp Shammy
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Paper Masking Tape
- Waterbrush
Using Memento Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the images on white cardstock, I colored them with using watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. Once the colors were dry, I used a silver gel pen to color all the chrome trim on the bus and hubcaps. Using the matching dies, I cut the animals and bus out. I cut a second bus out to act as a backing for the bus. I had colored and cut a set of spare tires, so I cut away the tires on the colored bus so I could add dimension of the tires being beneath the bus.
Next I played with the placement of the animals in the bus and once satisfied with their placement, I glued them to the backside of the blue bus. For the cake rack and the monkey, I had to add small slips of cardstock for supports for the foam tape that adhered them to the bus frame. The koala bear was also foam taped to the back bus using the die cut door opening as my placement guides. The tires were glued flat to the backing bus’s wheels. (And while I toyed with the idea of making the wheels on the bus spin – mimicking the children’s song – I deciding against it.) Doubled sided foam bits from my stash were sandwiched between the two bus layers for dimension. Baker’s twine was taped to the back of the colored balloons and poked between the bus layers and glued.
Using Stampin’Up Dapper Denim blue ink I stamped both outside “For You on your birthday” sentiment on white cardstock and then the large “Happy Birthday” inside the card. The “For You” I heat embossed with sparkly snow embossing powder which added sparkle, but embossed clear.
On the top inside panel I added another Art impression’s stamp of a tricycle riding elephant that I had colored and fussy cut out with its hat flying off.
The completed card has the bus doors being able to be opened to shoe the koala bear.
Say yes to adventure. Chase your dreams. Who knows where it will lead you? This is a card that tries to capture all these sentiments and to celebrate achievement.
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