Another Birthday Card? Holy Cluck!!!

Hee Hee - I'm just a birthday card factory these days, apparently! Greetings, everybody! The card I'm sharing today features another animal digital stamp image that I had in my printed stack: a trio of chicks ready to party down from Bugaboo Digi Stamps . I colored them up with my ProMarkers.

  

I began with Cheerful Sketches' current sketch. In PSE I resized to A7 and printed out, planning to use it turned left 90 degrees. I cut a 5x7" card base from white Recollections 110# card stock and opened my Birthday Paper Trapper where I store birthday-themed patterned paper and scraps. Because of the balloon in the image, I had to make the balloon my circular (flower) element in the sketch. I corrected the balance of the design by moving my focal to the center and then adding the blue rhinestones around the ribbon at lower left. Then a few around the balloon... I managed to stop myself there, lol.

After coloring the image, I cut it out using a Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die. Doing this cut off part of the balloon on the right hand side. I had printed out an extra balloon to cover the cut one...kinda like doing the Out of the Box Technique but cheating, lol. I was TIRED LAZY!!! lol  I cut a little larger mat for the image with a Stamps of Life stitched rectangle die. One of the Bugaboo Bingo challenge items I chose requires stitching, so I used 2 dies and a ribbon with stitching.

For the Bugaboo Holy Cluck sentiment, I printed it out and then cut it using a Spellbinders ribbon slide label die. I ran a striped ribbon and a stitched ribbon through the slide. I kind of enjoyed letting the ends of the ribbons lay unsecured as I never ever do that for fear of fraying. Well, I may just start now! :-)

For the inside of the card, I used more pattern scraps to line and stamped the Hero Arts sentiment on a smaller scrap.

Did kind of the same thing on the back, same paper, but with scrap strips and stamped the Impression Obsession on top.

A close-up angle shot to try to capture the sparkle of the bling...

I think this might be all of the animal images I printed, so you will hopefully be getting a break from those...for a while, anyway. This turned out to be a colorful and cute card that comes with a laugh or at least a groan and smile, lol. Thanks for visiting and here's to a great week!

CHALLENGES:
1.   Cheerful Sketches Feb. Challenge -- See sketch above.
2.   Catch the Bug Feb. Bingo Challenge -- I chose the middle row: Sparkle / Bugaboo Image / Stitching

3.   AAA Birthday Card Challenge Game #10: Cute

4.   Time Out Challenge #155: Birthday Quote 

5.   2 Crafty Critter Crazies #35: AG with a Critter -- Chickens
6.   PaperBabe Stamps Challenge #112: Layers
7.   Colour Crazy Week 6: AG with Colouring -- I used ProMarkers to color my focal image.
8.   Passion for ProMarkers Challenge Week 530: Use 3 of Something -- I used 3 chickens in my image and I coloured them with ProMarkers
9.   Outlawz Color Tuesdays Feb. 11-24: Use Photo Colors + Opt. Twist Love -- I used every color and I did not play the option  

10.  Cutie Pie Challenge #144: Cute and Cuddly Animals -- Chickens
11.  The Crafters Cafe' Challenge #236: Use Red and/or Pink -- I've used a lot of pink, a touch or two of red