Safari Babies Crib Card

*Hello, hello, and here we are at another weekend. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to make a card for this weeks Crazy4Challenges challenge, life has been a bit hectic and I haven’t been in my Craftroom for over a week 😭, so for this week I am posting a card that I made last month. It was a special request and it was a bit of a challenge in itself, I needed to make a Safari Animal themed baby boy card 🤔 which doesn’t seem too complicated but the only “safari” animal I have is a monkey 🐒, soooooo Scan n Cut to the rescue again, and this is what I came up with.

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The card stock is all from Stampin Up and the colours are listed below, the patterned paper and border and tag stickers are from a retired Stampin Up kit, I happened to be using them on a Previous Card and they were still sitting out. Worked great for this card as well.

I decided to make a 5 1/2” square card.

To make the crib I used Karen Burniston’s “Garden Bench” die set. It is currently retired but I’ve seen it on EBay so you might get lucky. ***Edit Karen came out with a new Garden Bench die set. When you cut out the bench cut away the pattered paper piece (you are cutting through 2 layers, then glue down the other side of the patterned paper background.

I googled the image below because I thought it was ADORABLE. I wanted to size the image so all the pieces would stay to scale so I traced them separately keeping like colours together. I sized it with my Scan n Cut.

Colouring added so much more dimension.

Now to create the front of the card.

I used random punches and dies to creat the rattle, soother and the bib. (I changed the bib at a later stage)

Now for the inside animals. I traced and drew them separately so I could scan them separately so I could size them independently.

The bananas came with my Jinx the Monkey set which is currently retired but you could double punch or die cut ovals to get a similar shape. The hammock is from Palm Tree Pop up die set from Karen Burniston.