The "Always Fun Challenge" determined my technique (paper piecing), and the "Retro Rubber Stamp Challenge" determined my layout and the use of older stamps in my craft room.
I chose for this card a "good luck" theme using the funny chicken from Stampin' Up!'s retired 2005 "Best of Cluck" set. All the papers I used for piecing and background are from the retired 2010 SU "Sweet Pea" Designer Series paper pad.
I turned the #rrbc91 sketch to landscape mode to accommodate the size of the chicken stamp, and to give her room to "run" across the card front. She is stamped on the paper that looks a bit like chicken wire using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I then stamped her again on four different other pattern scraps I had from the same DSP set.
I then cut each of the little pieces, wings, tail, head, beak using tiny paper snips so I could get around all the nooks and crannies of her features. Each of the little pieces were "pieced" atop the stamped image on the chicken wire background sheet using Tombow liquid glue.
I then trimmed the chicken wire paper to just taller than my chicken, but a bit wider than the SU Old Olive card base. I chose Old Olive to compliment the chicken's body. I then selected the same paper I used for her head, and using a VERY old Fiskars scallop punch, punched two rows of scallops and trimmed them to twice the height of the scallops so I could put glue on them to attach to the back of the chicken wire paper at the top and bottom.
I then glued the chicken wire panel to the card front, and trimmed with larger paper snips on either end to be even with the card front.
It was kinda nice that the funny chicken stamp also had the "good luck" sentiment, so the card came together pretty quickly once I chose the papers I wanted to use (the hardest part of the card making!!!)
I am rating this card's difficulty level as a "2" out of a possible "5" for beginners. For experienced card crafters it's probably a "1". Fun card to make!
Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 GMT Views: 838
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