More Jungle Pal Birthdays

Earlier in the month, I posted a card for a TSOT challenge  that was made with the Jungle Pals stamps and dies that were available during Stampin' Ups! Sale-a-Bration.  That was such a fun get well/thinking of you card and the recipient really liked it.  

Since then I've made some birthday cards using this same set and today wanted to share them with you.   

Here are the Cards I Made: 

This card started with an 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of Granny Apple Green card stock scored at 4 1/4".  I added a mat of Basic Black that measures 5 1/4" x 4".  Before adhering that piece I die cut the stitched 3" circle for the backing on my focal point.  The final mat is a 5" x 3 3/4" piece of Lemon Lolly cardstock.  Before adhering this mat to the front of the card, I did two things.  First I cut a 2 1/2" stitched circle mat for my focal from the top center of the mat and then I embossed it with the Fern 3-D Embossing Folder.  

For the inside of the card I cut a Basic White mat that measured 5 1/4" x 4" and adhered that to the card base.  Before putting this mat down, I added some foliage to the bottom and stamped with a birthday sentiment. 

Here's a close up of the focal point on the card front. I coloured the Toucan with Sweet Sorbet, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Basic Black blends and cut it out with the dies from the Jungle Pals die set.  I coloured a variety of the die cut leaves with Granny Apple Green, Old Olive and Lost Lagoon blends.  The sweet little flowers were coloured with Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie blends.  

The sentiment "your special day" is from the Cake Fancy (#162932) stamp set in the January Mini catalogue.  I embossed it with white embossing powder on a strip of Basic Black.  Love it! 

I stayed with the forest jungle theme for my next card which features the Tiger from the Jungle Pals bundle.  Although I was disappointed with my actual colouring of the Tiger (he's much too flat and the shaded look I was going for didn't happen), I was happy with the card as a whole.  Here it is:

Once again I used a Granny Apple Green card base to begin the card.  I followed this with a mat of Lemon Lolly that measured 4 1/8" x 5 3/8".  The top mat started out as a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Basic White.  

If you've never tried to create your own backgrounds you're missing out on a lot of fun and creativity.  To get the plants in the jungle look (see the original card) I began by die cutting all the foliage and flowers in the die set from Basic White cardstock.  I placed them over top of the mat and coloured them with ink and blending brushes.  You could also use a sponge dauber. 

The trick is to colour them on top of the cardstock mat and keep moving the pieces around as you blend so that you're laying down colour over top of colour.  I started all the blending with Lemon Lolly, then switched to Granny Apple Green and then added Lost Lagoon.    

 I die cut the flowers from a scrap of envelope from the Sweet Thoughts Memory or More pack so no colouring was involved.  

I die cut the flowers from the Calypso coral card front featured in this photo.  The grid pattern gave a nice textured look to the flowers. 

Well that's it for today's post.  I hope you liked it and will leave me a comment as to which of the two cards you liked the most.  I'm going back to the drawing board to learn to colour the tiger more realistically.  I'm going to try using blending brushes rather than blends so I get a toned down version.  Cheers and have a good week. 

HAPPY STAMPING! 

PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN' SPOT 

Penny Hanuszak, CDN Stampin' Up! Demo since 2006

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