Happy Birthday you fabulous creature!

Hi friends! Happy Saturday! I hope you’re enjoying some decent (not too awfully hot) weather where you are this weekend! Our new challenge is live this morning over at Mix It Up Challenge Blog and I’m thrilled to share my DT inspiration project for MIUCB #66 – Anything Goes + optional Aperture! Just a reminder that the technique twist is optional and not required to play, so let’s see either an ‘anything goes’ project or one with an aperture – your choice! I’ve been playing with some Art Impressions stamps and dies, and have a super fun birthday card to share with a square front flap aperture!

I cut a standard A2 size side-folding card base from CutCardStock Basis White along with a front layering panel from The Paper Studio Four Seasons and Everything In Between paper pad and an inside left layering panel from CutCardStock Pop Tone Sno Cone cardstock. Using the outline die in the Art Impressions Shadowbox Window dies, I cut a square aperture into the front flap through the card base and both layering panels. I stamped a sentiment from the twist set in Catherine Pooler Midnight ink above the aperture and added several YNS teal glitter Gumdrops.

Using the window frame die in the same die set, I cut a front window frame from CutCardStock Basis Magenta and an inside window frame from CutCardStock Pop Tone Blue Raspberry cardstock. I stamped the llama front and back from the Art Impressions Llama Twist Set stamps in the Midnight ink, colored it with alcohol markers, and cut it with the coordinating die (fussy cutting the top and bottom along the image lines since I wasn’t using it as a twister). I adhered the back of the llama as well as the front of it’s head (cut off just below the neck) to the card front so the head is visible through the window when the card is opened.

I cut the right inside panel from a coordinating print in The Paper Studio Four Seasons and Everything In Between paper pad and added Basis White and Basis Magenta strips as well as a sentiment strip from an additional print in The Paper Studio paper pad. Using the Stampin’ Up Balloon Bouquet punch, I punched one balloon from CutCardStock Stardream Metallic Azalea cardstock and two balloons from CutCardStock Stardream Metallic Lagoon cardstock. I adhered Singer white quilting thread behind the balloons and attached them with foam squares.

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Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: CutCardStock Basis 80# White, Basis Magenta, Stardream Metallic Azalea, Stardream Metallic Lagoon, Pop Tone Sno Cone, and Pop Tone Blue Raspberry cardstock, The Paper Studio Four Seasons and Everything In Between paper pad
Stamps: Art Impressions Llama Twist Set Stamps
Ink: Catherine Pooler Midnight ink; Arteza alcohol markers- GG06, RP15, BG37, YR00, BR64/74; Sakura Clear Star Gelly Roll pen
Dies/Punches: Art Impressions Llama Twist Set Dies and Shadowbox Window Die; Stampin’ Up Balloon Bouquet Punch
Accessories: Tonic Studios 12″ Guillotine Paper Trimmer, Bearly Art precision craft glue, MISTI stamp tool, Big Shot, Ranger Glossy Accents, Singer white quilting thread, Stampin’ Up Dimensionals, YNS Teal Glitter Gumdrops

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this project and will link up with us this time! We’d love to see what you create! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)

Scrappy hugs,