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Sunday, January 13, 2013

A Floral Bouquet Birthday Card (with a Skunk)

It's Sis from Paper, Craft & Scissors with a quick birthday card.  Sometimes it is nice to give someone a card that is less than serious but still pretty.  Okay - I almost always give someone a whimsical birthday card and this one is no exception. 

I have the perfect stamp sentiment that reads "another year older?  no stinkin' way!" from Darcie's Heart and Home.  The stamp set includes a darling skunk but I wanted to make a little larger card with a little dimension.  I found a cute skunk on one of my "go to" cartridges, Birthday Bash.  As designed, the skunk holds the number "7" and a balloon.  The added value of this cut is that is large enough to completely cover the Action Wobble spring that I wanted to use.  I cut the skunk at 4" tall.


While I could swap the number easily, I decided I wanted to add a bouquet of flowers and skip the balloon.  You can see the skunk has one arm down and one arm up.  Rather than hand cutting another arm, I used the area with the raised arm as the base of my flower bouquet.  First, I hand cut a triangle to serve as the flower bouquet wrapping and tucked it underneath the downward facing hand.

I cut a three types of flowers from the Flower Shoppe including one that has a flap to make the flower have more dimension.  I used a variety of sizes with the largest flower measuring 1.30" tall and the smallest measuring .90" tall.  I assembled my flowers and add a pearl accent to each.  I adhered the largest flowers first and then worked in the smaller flowers which were adhered with a pop dot.  The fern sprays are from the McGill Pine punch.


Once I finished assembling the flowers, I added the Action Wobble spring.  He was a little off balance so I glued a penny on the backside of the skunk head to counter the weight of the flowers.  The skunk and his bouquet are attached to a Spellbinder cut-out (the floral patterned paper) that is adhered to a piece of chipboard in order to give the skunk plenty of "wobble room."  The background patterned paper measures 5.25" square.


I used my Copic markers to add some texture to the skunk's white fur and face.  His eyes were cut out of white cardstock.  I added blue irises by punching light blue cardstock with my Crop-A-Dile.  I added pupils with a Micron pen.  



15 comments:

  1. I love this whimsical birthday card-- and those dimensional daisies are just perfect! I love how you transformed him from a number-toting critter to to bouquet-toting one! Perfect for an action wobble-- clever use of a penny as a counter-weight!

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  2. I love it! I'm very into the dimensional myself, I love love the flowers! That skunk is cute!

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  3. This card is just too cute!

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  4. Really creative. I have to remember this trick

    Maureen

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  5. Such a fun and adorable card! Def. have to scraplift this one! TFS!

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  6. This is so stinkin' cute! I love the whimsy of the card. I think the skunk's face is absolutely adorable!

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  7. I love, love, love this!! Your skunk with his flowers is sure to make their day extra special.

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  8. So much to love about this! The skunk is adorable and those flowers are perfect!

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  9. So, so, so cute!!!! Ohmygosh, I love it!! You are so talented. :)

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  10. Oh my gosh....this is scent-sational...what an adorable skunk and I love his bouquet. You are so fabulous!

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  11. Soooo stinkin adorable.. How cute. What a fun little card and loving the flower boutique. Great job.

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  12. Wow, how special do I feel today! I have been so busy at work, that I haven't had time to do blog hopping til today, but guess what arrived in my mailbox! These pics do not do this card justice. Now I just have to figure out how to preserve all those beautiful little flowers without smushing them! You are a very special lady Sis, and you've made me feel special too. Thank you for brightening my birthday! Your card is AWESOME!

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  13. Awww, he is so cute! You are so good at turning these little animal diecuts into something that totally all your own.

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  14. Really cute...love the skunk and flowers together...thanks for sharing.

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