I die cut the heart opening in the paper and then lined this up over the card base to determine where to place the giraffe. Then I reverse stamped the giraffe so they would line up. I had more space between them than I really wanted but it worked out because it gave me space for the greeting and then I just scattered a bunch of hearts instead of using just one. I also apparently had a stray cat hair when I reverse stamped the giraffe and ended up with a small line of ink across the neck, so this was an opportunity to add a pretty rhinestone necklace. When I looked at the DSP paper I had used on the inside I saw that there were two places where there were two frogs on the branch instead of just one so I added some small die cut hearts there, as well. I know this is not technically the front of the card, but using the stamp set font as a guide, I hand lettered the Happy 45th Anniversary Greeting which was the Friday's Free for All Challenge. And my DH bought a 5 year anniversary card at the store and handlettered a 4 in front of it! I do love that man! While I know it does not show up in the photo, I stamped two of the large leaves from Tropical Chic at the base of the giraffe's necks so they just didn't end in the air. IRL you can see the bottom of their necks through the heart opening and the leaves camouflage that.
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Sat, Sep 01, 2018 @ 8:23 AM
The inside of your card is sooooo cute. Love the paper with the frogs and the reverse stamping for the giraffes is terrific.
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