Hey everyone! Monday is almost (finally) over - it's been a rough start to the week to say the least. One of my kids is sick and I've been on clean up duty. Really hoping it's just a 24hour bug and that the other 3 kids (or me) don't catch it (it's the worst when my kids are sick - I just feel horrible for them).
SO - needless to say I haven't created anything new. However I had mentioned over a month ago that I'd made a card using a whole herd of Simon Says Stamp's Picture Book animal wafer dies. I was able to get that video edited and uploaded so here's the finished card:
This is a 5x7" card - I wanted to add so many animals and balloons to it that it all wouldn't fit (without really crowding them) onto the standard A2 card size.
There's NO stamping and NO embellishments on it either. I thought about it - but I really like the look of the die cuts from all the coloured card stocks and wanted that to be the focus.
All of the balloons and all of the animals are popped up with foam tape, and all the balloons are attached with heavy white thread. I used the foam tape on the animals to hold the ends of the threads in place, though if I were to re-make this card I'd just run a piece of tape along the bottom before adhering the animals. It would save having to fiddle with the threads (which I did a lot of LOL and just edited out of the final cut of the video).
On the inside of the card I added the number 12 that I die cut (the dies I used were retired some time ago - I linked to similar ones that Altenew released recently) along with a Happy Birthday die cut. I used SSS's glitter paper. If you love glitter and love die cutting you NEED their glitter paper - it is AMAZING. Die cuts like a dream and the glitter doesn't flake off and it doesn't have a smell. Some glitter papers have a horrible smell to them that just lingers. These papers don't have any sort of odour to them.
So that finished off this card - to see how it all came together check out my video below:
Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-----click!
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