Stampin with Liz Design: Gull Gang Card!

Hi there crafters! Welcome to a new Stampin with Liz Design blog post! Today I'd like to share some seagull fun with you! I've created a card before with this amazing stamp set called Gull Gang from Create a Smile stamps, which you can find here, so love this set! So today some more inspiration with these cheecky fellows!

I have to admit, I'm not a big bird fan, lol, I'm a huge animal lover, but something about the flying creatures gives me the creeps. I prefer animals that stay on the ground I guess. But, I do love them on a card, luckily, they don't flap with their wings here! This cheecky threesome look like they are all ready to be a bit mischievous! Want to know how I created this fun card? Let me tell you! I started this card with a white card base in A2 size (which is aproximately 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"). I then diecutted a fun front panel from a piece of white cardstock with the largest die from the Postage Stamp dies from SugarPea Designs. These dies are really a good investment, I use them a lot to create panels with! I then started working on a fun background, using a stencil, a blending tool and ink.

I find the circles from the In Circles stencil from Create a Smile really mesmerizing! Aren't they stunning?!  I used this fun stencil for my background. I wanted to stay inside the stitched lines from my panel and keeping some white space at the bottom, so in order to keep these spaces white, I used masking tape to cover them with. I blended the circles on to my panel with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink from Ranger, my definite ink to go to for blending! Keeping my stencil on it's place after blending, I spattered some blue ink spatters on to this background to make it a bit more interesting, but keeping the white circles white! I stamped the text 'You're Part of My Gang' underneath with Black Tuxedo Memento ink.

I then wanted to add some more fun details on to this clean background and created a few drops with the Nuvo Crystal Drops bottles in the colours Simply White and navy Blue. Just love how easy you can make these gorgeous drops! I then stamped the seagulls, the poles I wanted them to sit on and some french fries from the set. This set doesn't come with coördinating dies, but off course you can easily fussy cut them or maybe you own a cutting machine. I love fussy cutting, totally relaxing! I coloured these fun items with Copic Markers and added them on to my front panel using dimensionals. I love using dimensionals between my front panel and card base as well, so I did for this card too. Hope you enjoy! If you'd like to enter the latest challenge at Create a Smile Challenges, please check it here! We are having a gorgeous moodboard up this challenge, you can enter untill April 27th. If you don't own a Create a Smile stamp set yet, you can use on of the freebies that are up on their site! Hope to see you all there, thanks for stopping by!