Happy Birthday Koal-ity Friend

Hello Blogger friends! Hope you are doing well this Easter weekend. 

We are having our family here for dinner tomorrow. I have everything set to go. My house is cleaned, I have the dining room table already set. I found a really cute fold for my dinner napkins. They look like bunny ears. 

After Easter service tomorrow morning I will come home and get all my side dishes prepared. We have ham for dinner. My hubby's family likes that, so I stay safe and serve it. It will be a nice day spending it with family. 

Now onto my card for today. This one I created for my weekly DT post on the CottageCutz Blog. The new line of Australian animals was just released.  Today, for your viewing pleasure I have created a birthday card using the new Koalas die. So, let's get started with some details on how I created this card.

Design Steps:

I started my card this week using the colors from the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #891. We were to use rococo rose, pretty peacock, so saffron and just jade. Any neutrals are allowed as well.

I cut the koala image in a gray cardstock and sponged the edges for a bit more depth. The eucalyptus tree I cut from white cardstock and colored with Copic and Stampin' Up markers in the challenge colors.

For my card base I used an espresso cardstock. It's a rich shade of brown that complemented the rose shade nicely. I had an ombre designer paper in the rococo rose color and then used the Pierced Wide Rectangle Frame die to create a frame.

I stamped my sentiments in a chocolate chip ink. I laid the koala image down first on the background so I could get my placement correct. Then I used the MISTI for stamping. When I saw the new dies being released, I bought a few stamp sets with some punny sentiments this is one of them.

Now that my card elements are prepared, I am ready to attach my Koala image.

To finish off my card I attached the image panel to the Espresso Brown card base and scattered a few yellow enamel dots to get that color in for the challenge. Well, that's it for me for this post. So until next time .......God bless. 

card details:

Stamps: bandicoot & friends (Hero Arts)

Paper: early espresso, rococo rose, oh so ombre dsp (Stampin' Up)

Paper Size: A2

Ink: choc chip, smokey slate (Stampin' Up)

Accessories: Koalas, Pierced Wide Rectangle dies (CottageCutz), just jade, pretty peacock Stampin' Blends, glitter enamel dots (Stampin' Up), Copic Markers E57 (Light Walnut) & E59 (Walnut)

I am also entering:

1.  Polkadoodles has an anything goes challenge. 

2.  Alphabet Challenge Blog has an "A" for animal antics challenge. 

3.  Fab n' Funky has an animal challenge.

4.  Through The Purple Haze has an animal challenge.  

5.  Ellibelles Crafty Wednesday has an animal challenge.