Craftie Cafe: It's a jungle out there...
So…Craftie Café’s theme this month is summer – which aside from being my favourite season
of the year also happens to have endless possibilities in terms of card ideas!
I thought sea (water, seagulls, beach, sand, sun, & hats) which then moved
to sea animals (fish, whales, & dolphins). I then thought ice-cream and
fruit…which…then lead me to BANANA’S (my son’s favourite fruit!) which quickly
reared off course to Jungle Safari and MONKEY’S!!!
Yup – that’s
how my crafty brain works!
I used
Wplus9 – Whimsy
Alphas and Eline’s
Monkey die (by Marianne Designs) to create these fun bright and interactive
cards (their heads wobble).
I also
happened to video the card process – which you can view below. I speed it up
quite a bit during the stamping of the background as that part is quite
repetitive.
Below are
two more card examples – using the same process but creating different
background sentiments. I don’t use my alphabet stamps enough – but having a few
stamp sets like this one allows you to create whatever sentiment you want!!
Hip Hip Hooray
Supplies Used:
Lawn Fawn Inks – Celery, Jalapeno, Sunflower, Plastic Flamingo
Other:
Tape Runner
Scissors/Paper Trimmer
White Cardstock
Green Cardstock
Brown/Cream Cardstock
Cuttlebug
Versafine – Onyx Black
Another
thing I love about alphabet stamps is that you can also customise the inside of
your cards! I decided to play a little with additional sentiments that would
work well with the front of each card. Check them out below – and hope this
inspires you to get creative with your own stash of alphabet stamps (that we
all seem to forget about!)
Happy
Crafting!
Samantha
Comments
Post a Comment