It's A Jungle Out There !

I think I may have blogged this card before,
but I still just love it.
The scrapbook papers are from
DCWV Safari 8 x 8 stack.
The tiger is stamped in black, torn out,
and the edges heavily sponged with two shades
of brown ink and then burned with black ink.
The only color on the tiger itself is the yellow
of the eye.

A fern image stamped in medium brown ink
completes the jungle look.

The phrase, "It's a jungle out there."
has been computer generated.
I have no idea of the manufacturer of the
stamps, they are unmounted and I bought them
before I started marking the maker on
my unmounted stamps.

It's A Jungle Out There

You may not be able to read the tiny phrase, so just in case, it says, "It's a jungle out there !"

A white card base that has been distressed is the first step. Now the jungle prints from DCWV are layered onto dark brown cardstock that is cut with decorative scissors. The tiger image is stamped on white, torn out, distressed and attached with 3-D foam mount. Note that the tigers eye is yellow, a felt tip marker was used for this.

The stamping of the ferns were the last step.

Tiger In The Jungle

I was showing my husband all the cards that I had made using the Safari papers from DCWV. He said I needed a more jungley look. Since his comments are usually pretty accurate I started playing with my fern and jungle foliage stamps on cream paper. Each type of leaf is done in a different color. I did a random stamping to cover the entire 4.25 x 5.5 inch paper. I then heavily sponged into the rectangle with Coffee Archival ink from Ranger. There is a narrow band of Ranger's Jet Black Archival ink sponged around the outer edge.

After all of the ink was applied and dried, the entire surface was heavily talced. I almost always do this before using embossing powder. Especially with a paper that has been handled as much as this one was.

The tiger image was stamped with VersaMark and embossed with fine line black embossing powder. I then carefully sponged Ranger's Marigold Distressed in over just the tiger image.

I have no idea who designed the tiger image. It was a sheet of various tiger images that I received from master stamper Eva Hays as a gift. I think the fern and leaf images are from Rubber Stamp Avenue.

When I am going to be doing a lot of inking and manipulation on a card, I don't work directly on the card front because this ink and handling tends or warp the paper. I have a stack of white and cream paper cut to card front size. When I am all done I use my Crafters Pick Ultimate glue to attach the design to the card front. It is immediately placed under the trusty college dictionary to become a very crisp smooth perfectly flat card after several hours. (also known as "booking it")