This Animal Expedition Kangaroo Little Hello Card came about quite by accident! While my mind is mostly on holiday projects, this Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper kind of jumped out at me. When I pulled out some Crumb Cake Cardstock to use with it, there were already two 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ card bases in with the cardstock so that’s what I used!
I don’t have a fancy cardstock storage system. I leave the paper in the plastic that it comes in (until it rips and falls apart!) and I stick cardstock scraps into the bag also. Then I just stack the packages by color family on a few plastic paper sorter things. It works for me. So if I made a card base and then didn’t use it, I just put it back in that package of cardstock to be discovered sometime when I do want to use it!
This card began with the Animal Expedition Paper and since I wanted to use the big kangaroo on one of the sheets of paper, I chose a sheet with a lot of greenery for the background layer. To cut out the kangaroo, I chose the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. I chose a scalloped oval because it seemed to fit around the kangaroo better without cutting into some other animals on the paper. It did cut into two little birds although that hardly would have been noticeable, but I just cut out two birds by hand from the paper and adhered them over the partially showing birds. It gives it a little bit of a 3D look and makes it a little more fun.
Since I already had the two 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ card bases ready to go in my package of cardstock, I chose to go ahead and use one of those. Sometimes it is fun to use a different card size. For this size, just start with a piece of cardstock 8 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ and fold in half. The layer of designer paper is then 4″ x 4″.
For some embellishment on the card, I used the 1/8″ Shaded Spruce Ribbon in the Metallic Ribbon Combo Pack. I just adhered a piece around the center of the card and then tied two little pieces of ribbon onto each side.
The layered kangaroo piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is stamped from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. I could have used lots of different greetings. I think this would make a cute baby card, for example. Or it could have been birthday or “thinking of you” or others. The greeting is punched out with the Classic Label Punch. Then I even used this punch to make the flagged ends of the greeting. It is popped up with the new Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Pretty easy card to make and the Animal Expedition Paper is oh so cute! This Animal Expedition Kangaroo Little Hello Card would be fun to send to a friend in the mail!
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