Have a Roaring Birthday

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing an interactive card for my design team day!  The new Slimline dies certainly made it easy to create this fun card.

I used the Lift Flaps Stitched Rectangle Slimline die set to cut out the double stitched rectangle and the lift flaps.  I cut out an extra lift flap in white card stock and cut it off on the attached end.  I also cut out the Safari Lion, Safari Rhino, Safari Giraffe, Safari Zebra and Safari Camel.  The grass border is from the Grass Slimline die set.

The safari animals were cut out in both white and colored card stock and shaded with some inks.  The first step in my design process was to layer the lift flap die cut on top of the the grassy background.  This piece was then adhered onto my card base.

Next, the sweet animals were nestled inside of the lift flap frames.  I trimmed the giraffe slightly so that he would fit.

The lion and rhino were adhered on top of the right and left side flaps. 

I stamped a couple of sentiments along with a lion image on the white card stock flap and adhered it to the other flap adding a fun element to my card.

Here are the die sets used on my card, available in the store:

Tons of Love

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne today and I have another Valentine's Day card for you using the Safari dies.  I couldn't decide which of these three images to use with this sentiment so I hit upon using all three and making a slimline card!

I started by choosing a paper that was floral with greenery and in good "Valentine's" colors.  I cut  a panel 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches and a panel 8 3/8 x 3 3/8 inches from the floral.

I cut the animals using three different shades of grey.  (You could also cut them from white and color them using three different shades of grey ink.) I cut three hearts using the Stitched Hearts dies in pink and green to match my paper.

I glued one animal to each heart.  I knew I wanted the elephant in the middle as it is slightly larger than the other two.

To assemble the row of animals I glued one animal to each heart and aligned them using graph paper.  This made it very easy and the lineup turned out perfectly spaced.

I added this to the card front along with some baker's twine.

I stamped and cut out the sentiment and adhered it to the front using foam dots.  This was a very quick card to make and is sure to be a hit with any animal lover!

Dies used:

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!