Fabulous Flamingos Card with Hanh

Hello Crafty Friends! This is Hanh on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog with a fun birthday boxcard to share with you featuring the adorable images from the Fabulous Flamingos and Sending Sunshine sets. Aren't these flamingos just the cutest?! Today I'm going to share a quick and easy way to make a homemade boxcard to add just a little pizzazz to your birthday cards. So let's get started. 

I stamped the flamingos and palm trees from the Fabulous Flamingos and Sending Sunshine Stamps sets onto a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and used the coordinating Fabulous Flamingos Dies and Sending Sunshine Dies to die cut them out. I colored them with Copic markers and highlighted them with a white gel pen.

COPIC COLORS:
Flamingos: RV000/00/02/06, Y13, C1
Palm Trees: YG01/03/17/67, E41/42/43/44

For the boxcard, I used a few pieces of sturdy white cardstock: base (1.5" x 10.5"), back panel (3.75" x 4.25"), background panel (3.25" x 3.75"), sentiment strip (3.25" x 1") and 3 shelves (4.75" x 2"). I also trimmed a few pieces of a contrasting teal cardstock for decorations: back mat (3.5" x 4"), sentiment strip mat (3.5" x 1.25") and 2 side panels (1" x 1.25").

To assemble the boxcard, I used a score board to score the base strip at the 0.5", 1.75", 5.5" and 6.75" marks. I folded the strips at the score lines and used a strong double sided tape on the 0.5" end tab to enclose the boxcard base.

Next, I lightly blended some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink onto the background panel. Once it was dry, I added a few dots with a BG11 Copic marker and a white gel pen for a bit of interest. I adhered this background panel to the teal back mat, then to the white back panel with liquid adhesive. I adhered these panels as well as the teal sentiment strip mat and teal side panels to the boxcard base with liquid adhesive. 

For the shelves, I used one of the stitched slope dies from the Slimline Nature Borders Dies to die cut a slope with a nicely finished edge onto the 3 white shelves. I lightly blended some Scattered Straw and Tea Dye Distress Oxide inks onto the top finished edge of the shelves. I added a few dots with a E33 Copic marker, a black Pigma Micron pen (or you can use a Copic Multiliner pent) and a white gel pen to give the mounds a more realistic sand appearance. Once the inks were dried, I trimmed off 0.5" from each end of one of the shelves and adhered it to the inked background panel of the boxcard. Next, I used a score board to score at the 0.5" mark on each end of the remaining two shelves. I folded at the score line, added some double sided tape to the end tabs and adhered them into the boxcard.

For the sentiment, I stamped the "Have a" and "birthday" from the Harvest Mice Stamp set and the "flamazing" from the Fabulous Flamingos Stamp set onto the white sentiment strip with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I adhered the strip to the front of the boxcard with liquid adhesive.

Finally, I decorated the boxcard with my colored images using liquid adhesive. HINT: for extra sturdiness, I sometimes use a thin strip of clear acetate to adhere behind my colored image (especially for thin images like these flamingos and their thin legs) before adhering the other end of the clear acetate strip to the boxcard shelf. These clear acetate strips are also super handy for adhering images that appear to be floating in midair like balloons, birds or clouds.

I love boxcards. I think they take a regular card to a whole new level of fun for the recipient. I also love that they can be flattened and fit into a regular envelope for mailing. My card today fit nicely into a standard A2 sized envelope. 

I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and visit today. I hope you liked my boxcard. For more info and ideas, be sure to visit the Sunny Studio Stamps Shop. Please also visit my INSTAGRAM feed for more inspirations.

Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio