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!

Tatooine Card Scene

What's new? I've finally branched into alcohol markers. I picked up some cheap ones (Ohuhu Brand - 80 ct.) off Amazon to see how much I like them before I make the leap to Copic. I've also came across Kindred Stamps from searching Etsy for Star Wars stamps and found 3 sets of Galactic Heros (I'm in love!) I've had a lot of fun experimenting with coloring the characters. There are a bunch of pop culture stamps I really want but will have to pace myself...

Tatooine scene - I tried to make it as accurate as possible with the double setting suns. I just sponged some yellow ink onto some light yellow paper for the small sun. I used some yellow and pink ink on cream paper for the large sun. I quickly used some varying sized circle punches. 

For the card base I used some cream paper and for the desert dunes I sponged some "Hello Honey" Stampin Up ink. I created a rolling hill template out of a clear plastic sheet I have for shaker cards (.007 thickness). This was the first time I did this and I made 6 cards bases at once. I should have paid close attention to the template and made sure there was no ink seeping under the the back side. I have some smudges that I could have prevented. 

I used the same template to mark and cut the curve for the bottom of the building. I used a speech bubble from a Lawn Fawn "A Birdie Told Me" set with the die and a Lawn Fawn "Lift the Flap Stitched Door" for the droids to hide behind.

I'm happy with the finished product. I plan on putting a birthday sentiment on the inside (that is mostly what I give out). I'll probably use the Lawn Fawn "Out of this World" set - Hope your birthday is out of this world, for the inside.

I hope you love it as much as I do :)