Baby Carriage Safari

Have you ever gone on an African safari??  Not me... but certainly would LOVE to.... hummm.. maybe should add that to my bucket list.... In the mean time, perhaps we could satisfy our safari craving by making a card with all the animals we'd see on safari.... well this one is just darling.... found on Mickey Roberts Paper Conversation blog....She happen to download the animal immages from her Digital Studio but you could use any animal stamp to do the same...

 

This card begins with a card base of Chocolate Chip cardstock.  A piece of Old Olive cardstock was run through the Big Shot inside the Lattice Textured Impressions embossing folder, the edges sponged with Old Olive ink, matted with a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock (the edges sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink), and adhered to the card base to create the card front.

The baby carriage begins with a piece of So Saffron cardstock die cut in the Big Shot using the 3 1/2" circle Originals die then inserted into the Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions embossing folder and run through the Big Shot again.  The die cut circle was cut apart into two pieces:  one piece is 1 7/8" wide and the other 1 5/8" wide, then the 1 5/8" wide piece was reduced to 1 3/8" wide.  The edges of both pieces were sponged with So Saffron ink.  A piece of Chantilly Crochet Trim was placed along the straight edge of each piece with a piece of Pumpkin Pie 1/8" Taffeta ribbon placed along the center of the crochet trim.  The top of the carriage was adhered to the card front using Mini Glue Dots and the bottom of the baby carriage was adhered using Stampin' Dimensionals. 

The carriage wheels begin with a piece of So Saffron cardstock punched with the 1 1/4" circle punch and matted with a 1 3/8" circle punched from Chocolate Chip cardstock and adhered to the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals.  The hub for each wheel begins with a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock punched with the 1" circle punch, the edges sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink, and spokes scored using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool.  A hole was pierced through the center of the hub and a Very Vanilla Neutrals 5/16" brad was inserted with the brad legs set at the back of the hub.  The hub was adhered at the center of the wheel using Stampin' Dimensionals.

The push handle for the carriage was die cut from Pumpkin Pie cardstock using the Big Shot and the Swirls Medium die and the edges sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink.  Two tags were tied to the die cut with Linen Thread.  The tags were stamped using Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, and So Saffron inks on Whisper White cardstock, a hole punched at the top of each tag using the 1/16" circle punch, and the tags punched out with the Medium Jewelry Tag punch.  The swirl was adhered to the card front behind the front of the carriage with Mini Glue Dots and the tags were adhered using Stampin' Dimensionals.

The giraffe print was slid into the carriage and adhered to the card front.  A head from a second giraffe was cut out and placed over the head of the adhered giraffe using Stampin' Dimensionals.  The monkey head with hands was cut out and adhere to the card front at the top edge of the carriage bottom using two Stampin' Dimensionals stacked on top of each other.  A second monkey head (this time minus the hands) was placed on top of the first monkey head using Stampin' Dimensionals.

The inside sentiment area of the card was lined with a piece of Whisper White cardstock matted with a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock.  The palm frond image from the Tropical Party stamp set  was stamped across the bottom edge of the Whisper White cardstock using Old Olive ink.  The tiger and cheetah images cut out and adhered near the bottom edge of the liner.  A second cheetah head was cut out and placed over the adhered cheetah head using Stamping Dimensionals.  Five more palm fronds were stamped on a piece of Whisper White cardstock using Old Olive ink and cut out using Paper Snips.  These palm fronds were adhered along the bottom edge of the liner to create a "jungle" for the cats to peek out from.  

The palm frond image was stamped a few times at the lower left front corner of the Medium Whisper White Envelope.  The zebra image was cut out with Paper Snips and adhered over the palm fronds.  A second zebra head was cut out and placed over the adhered zebra with Stampin' Dimensionals.  (You wouldn't do this if you were mailing this card.)

A monkey was cut out with Paper Snips and added to the back flap of the envelope just for fun.


BONUS... here's the baby carriage card that inspired her to create he animal safari card...

Don't ya love it when you see a great idea and how 

differently it can be used to create an entirely new card...

love it love it love it!