Farm Birthday Card

For a farm girl niece, I created this fun twist panel pop-up card using Karen Burniston's Twist Panel Pop Up kit.

You can make a card like this too! I started with a red card stock for the base of the card. I used my background gingham stamp to make the three black and white checked strips. You can find tutorials online for creating the twist pop up card, if you don't have it. 

On the front of the card I used some Distressed Ink to create the sky and grass look. By placing a stickie not you can create a sharp line dividing the colors. I used Lawn Fawn's Scripty Happy die (I wish they had a matching birthday die) with a little wreath die.

Inside, I used the Twist Panel Pop Up die kit and cut negative and positive portions of Stitched Hillside  dies to make a sky and ground for my farm friends. I stacked the two colors on top of each other to get a perfect match. I used Critters on the Farm stamps and colored with copic markers.  to create the back and white checker paper I used Gingham Backdrops stamp. 

This scene can be modified for to anything you already have. I hope you enjoyed!

Irwin Birthday Card

I had been toying with the idea of creating a birthday card since I saw the Kindred Stamps set G'Day. I finally had to make this happen since it was Steve Irwin's actually birthday! (I may have finished it technically at 3am the next day) I tried very hard to crop off the hat on the G'day character but, I just couldn't get it to look right so I switched to Lawn Fawn. I used the Bicycle Built for You set to make the people look like they are wrestling a croc. I think it turned out pretty cute! 

I struggled with where to put Terri as I couldn't put her too close since it would look like her head was on Steve's butt. It worked out well to use the Critters Down Under stamp set for the croc. It is a little longer to give me more space to work with for the croc wrestlers. I borrow the log and cattails from Totally Awesome and a grass tuft is from Critters in the Jungle.

For the front message, CRICKEY!, I used the Jessie's ABCs. I grabbed the Wild for You set and used it to make the inside sentiment. 

I'll give the G'Day set another try now that I have multiliner markers to complete character modifications! 

Dead Dudes Birthday Card

Today, I am sharing a fun little card I created for my niece's birthday. A little backstory for this card is she introduced me this ridiculous video "Carl Poppa" by Bad Lip Reading. WARNING - It will get stuck in our head! 

So, I came up with the idea to make her a birthday card inspired by the video using the Kindred Stamps Surviving Zombies set and the Lawn Fawn stamp set Let's Play. I created my own stencil to color the ground and ski with distressed inks. I colored in the items with copic markers and used a little Gelly roll pen for some highlights. The center zombie is on a mini wobble spring. Lastly, I printed my sentiments using Word and some neat fonts I've downloaded.

Here is the finished product with the inside message and the envelope peeking out.

Don't worry folks she's 14 years old and this is way cuter than anyone in that video! Don't let dead dudes ruin your day and I hope you enjoyed.

Jiggy jar jar doo!