Cutest Crew, Children's Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a children's birthday card to share with you. I don't make many boy crds and I thought this one would be perfect for a boy. Who doesn't love the looks of this cow?  I liked the layout on a card I saw on Pinterest so I thought I'd go with it. You can see that card by clicking here. Please read on to see how it was made.

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 quarter sheet of Basic White card stock and textured it using the "Forever Plaid" embossing folder and then I trimmed it to 4" x 5-1/4".

Using the second largest circle in the "Stylish Shapes" die set, I cut it out on scrap card stock. Then, using my blending brush, I scrubbed on some Misty Moonlight ink where I thought the cow would look the best.

I stamped the cow from the "Cutest Crew" using Basic Black ink. I fussy cut it out. Then I colored it using Blends pens. I used Ivory on the top of the nose, bottom lip, and the horns. I used Petal Pink on the ears and the rest of the nose area. The top part of the head and now the forehead to the nose was colored in with both light and dark Crumb Cake. And the body, face and top of the ears was colored in using both light and dark Pecan Pie. 

Do you see how perfectly I fussy cut the cow out?  It's not perfect but I have a trick to make it look perfect and I'm going to share it with you again. I say again because it's been a very long time since I shared it. I just figured everyone knew how to do it by now.  Anyway. I lay my image on a piece of scrap copier paper and I take a Sharpie and color around the edges, like tracing the image. I used to use the belly of a marker but Stampin' Up! no longer sells the markers.  I didn't want to use my Basic Black Blends pen because I didn't want to ruin it so I just used a regular old Sharpie.  Just trace along, don't stop or the ink bleeds. Once it's all traced it looks like you are the best fussy cutter around!  It gives the edges that nice solid look and I think it looks more professional too!  Give it a try and tell me what you think. I don't often do it but when the mood hits I do!

The words are from the same "Wild Bunch" set and were stamped using Basic Black ink. I cut them out using a die from the "Stylish Shapes" set.

Dimensionals were added to the back of the textured piece and it was set in place on the front of the card.

Then the word piece was added with Dimensionals and lastly the cow was added with Dimensionals. It was set so the back feet were lined up with the word piece.

I used three black dots from the "Adhesive-Backed Bats Ghosts & Dots" package. It's such a cute package and I can see myself using the bats and ghosts but the dots, not as much so when I was thinking about adding something to the card I thought of that package and added three of the black ones to the card and the card was done.

This was a very fun card to make and I'm happy with how the cow turned out. 

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