Wooly Friends, Simply Said, Lovely & Beautiful, Children's Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

 Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a birthday card to share with you that I think would make a good card for a child but an adult may like it too, though I'm leaning towards child. I found it on Pinterest. You can see the original card by clicking here.  

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut a piece of Highland Heather to measure 4" x 5-1/4" for the largest layer. On top of that is a piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Lovely & Beautiful" 12" x 12" package. It's cut at 3-1/5" x 4-7/8" and then cut along the diagonal. I taped the pieces to the Highland Heather piece.

The focal layers were cut as follows: the Highland Heather piece measures 2-7/8" x 4". The Crushed Curry piece measures 22-3/4" x 3-7/8" and the Basic White piece measures 2-5/8" x 3-3/4". 

I stamped the lamb from the "Wooly Friends" using black Memento ink on Basic White card stock. I also stamped the bow tie, head and flowers at the same time. I fussy cut the body and the flowers. I used my light Smoky Slate Blends pen to highlight the areas around the sheep's body and head. I laid the body on the Basic White piece to see where the grass would go. I colored the grass area on the Basic White piece using Old Olive ink and a blender brush. The sky was added with a blender brush using Balmy Blue.

I stamped the grass using Old Olive ink. Then I put the body back on the piece to see where the butterfly would go. I stamped the butterfly using black Memento ink. 

I used the detail stamps for the flowers and leaves. I stamped the flowers using Crushed Curry ink and Old Olive for the petals.  I was going to tape the fussy cut flowers in place but I didn't like how you could see the white between the flowers on the original card so I covered the flowers with my fingers and scrubbed on some Old Olive. I thought that would do the trick but then the grass in the background disappeared so once again I took out the grass stamp, I set the flowers were they were going to go and I used my MISTY and lined up the flowers and grass and stamp. I stamped the grass over the flower stems and I liked what I saw, it blended better. I taped the flowers on top of the grass. I'm glad I did color that area in, I REALLY like how it looks, it blends and is not distracting.

I colored the butterfly using my light Highland Heather Blends pen. I taped the Basic White piece to the Crushed Curry layered piece and that was set in place on the front of the card using Dimensionals. 

Dimensionals were added to the back of the sheep's body and it was set in place on the front of the card. I laid the head on top to see where the bow should go. I taped the bow in place. I put my head on a spring circle (I had my hubby print out for me on his 3D printer, he had made me some before but they were too big for this size head so he printed me some smaller ones. PERFECT!!). I used a glue dot to hold the piece to the head and I glued the back of the springy thing to it. Now the head wiggles when flicked. TOO cute!

The words are from the "Simply Said" set and were stamped using black Memento ink on a piece of Basic White card stock. I set them in place using Dimensionals. And that was it, the card was done.

This was a fun card to make and adding the wiggly thing gives the card a bit more fun.

Thank you SO much for taking your time to stop in and see today's birthday card,
Wanda