Our current challenge at cardz 4 galz is to use cute animals or insects and I chose these monkeys from a new StampinUp set that I won recently. The frame die is from MFT and uses some shimmery green CS from SSS. I popped this up with foam tape. The background is a piece of Vellum made to look like a sky, which was glued to card front first. Once the images were stamped I fussy cut everything, but the smaller items were a bit challenging to cut this way. I may look for the matching dies to this set. The monkeys were coloured with Inktense pencils, Sakura pens and Ohuhu pens. Then I assembled the card until I liked the placement using glue/foam tape to do so.
Although I really like the shimmer CS it is quite soft and the die made it a bit fragile. I disguised the broken bits as best as I could but must remember this when I use more of the CS. I think this turned out reasonably well, but it did take some time to create.
Thanks for stopping by, it is appreciated. I look forward to seeing your creations in the gallery.
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The shimmery paper is lovely and a perfect background for the cute monkeys.
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Thanks Judy. I like that CS a lot, but it is soft and I think intricate dies are not such a good choice for it.
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Cute card! There is a punch that matches the monkeys.
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Thanks a lot. Generally I don’t use punches as my hands don’t like them, but if that is what comes with this set I may buy one. I’ll check it out.
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It’s a sweet card as those monkeys are super cute. I can’t imagine the fussy cutting that took to get those tails with their curves. Great job on this! I wonder if you adhered the glimmer cs to another piece of not heavy cs before cutting if it would work better?
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This is so cute!! Those monkeys are adorable.
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Super cute and fun card. That’s a lot of fussy cutting on those monkeys. Great job. The vine background die looks great in that shimmery paper.
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Thanks Gayle. There is going to come a time when fussy cutting won’t be possible for me, but while I can still do it I do. I do choose which stamps I’ll try it on though. Glad you like this card.
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Cute!!!
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