Savanna Safari & Silly Sloths Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some critter cards for Summer!

For my first card, I showcased the adorable African critters from our Savanna Safari Stamps. I took inspiration from some graphic art which I reimagined with stamps. I started by inking my card panel background with Scattered Straw distress ink. I then masked off the clouds using Spellbinders Masking Sheets with our Majestic Meadow Dies and Tulip Path Background Dies and a basic circle die for the sun. For my next layer of ink, I covered the top half with fossilized amber distress ink. I then peeled off just the cloud masks and inked my panel once again with Wild Honey distress ink, fading it out towards the center where my horizon would land.

I then die-cut two stitched hillside borders using our Slimline Nature Border Dies and marked in pencil where they would land and set them aside so I could stamp five of the Baobab trees in PinkFresh Studio Doe Ink. I then colored one hillside to match using Tea Dye distress ink and a second one using Vintage Photo and Gina K. Warm Cocoa Ink. I used that same warm cocoa ink to stamp some tufts of grass from the Savanna Safari set. 

Lastly, I arranged my critters in the scene and then stamped my greeting from the set. Please pretend the top line was stamped higher than it is. That was the very last thing I did and I was so bummed it stamped lower than I was planning. Especially since I was so happy this card had turned out, exactly how I had envisioned it up to that point. Ha-ha! It's the story of my life.

For my second card, I moved from Africa to South America with a card featuring our Silly Sloths Stamps. I started by inking up my background using Twisted Citron distress ink, lightening it towards the center of my card panel. I then stamped layers of tropical leaves using our Radiant Plumeria Stamps with VersaFine Clair Verdant Green Ink and Gina K. Key Lime Ink. I had colored and fussy cut these images out back when these stamps first came out in 2019, so my goal was to use up all the remaining images I had on hand. I needed a few extra tree branches to complete my vision though so I added the branch from our Love Birds Stamps and another from our Little Birdie Stamps. I completed my card by taking one of the sentiments from the set and enlarging the word "hanging" by spelling it out with our Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies and the question mark from our Chloe Alphabet Dies.

That wraps up my projects for this morning. I hope I've inspired you in your own cardmaking and that you spread a little happiness by sending out a card to a loved one today.💛

Don't forget to check out our Savanna Safari Stamps, Silly Sloths Stamps, and Radiant Plumeria Stamps in our online shop, which are both currently on sale!  Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image so there are lots of ideas to scroll through there organized by set.

Supplies Used:

Chloe Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Radiant Plumeria Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Love Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Majestic Meadow Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Majestic Meadow Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tulip Path Background Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tulip Path Background Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spellbinders Masking Sheets Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio