A Sunny Hello
by Birgit Norton

When inspiration hits, sometimes you just have to roll with it!  That was the case with this card when I received the Whittle Bit of Fun Kits.  The idea to make a jungle inspired cake card popped into my head and here you go!    Birgit here with you today, and here’s how this card came together.

I started by cutting out the Whittle Tropical Gators and Whittle Pirate Monkey’s, adding color using Distress Oxide Inks and Copic Markers, then gluing the shapes together.

Next came the card base.  I cut the Floral Cake Pop-Up Easel card out of a soft blue cardstock, assembling the easel part as seen in the photo’s.

I die cut the cake layers out of a solid green cardstock from the Greenery 6×6 pad  and cut the printed layer using paper from my stash.  The cake scallops were cut out of brown cardstock, as I thought they would make good vines for the monkey’s to swing on.

Next, I glued the trunks of the palm trees on first so I could add the leaves in a manner that they wouldn’t hang over the bottom portion of the cake, so that it would still fit in an A2 sized envelope.   I added the water die to the bottom of the cake and glued on the toothy gator and hanging the monkey’s on the vines.

Next, I cut the flowers from the Floral Cake Pop-Up set out of a scrap of soft yellow cardstock and glued them together from largest to smallest, creating the layered flowers.

Once they were glued to the cake, I added Fairy Jewels to the centers to finish my card front.

For the inside of the card, I added  the cake layers in green and white, allowing space to stamp a sentiment from the Whittle Tropical Gator Kit.  The cake’s frosting details and two more whittle friends finished the inside of the card off perfectly.

These easel cards are so fun to make and even more fun to give!

Supplies

KT001 Whittle Tropical Gator Kit

 

KT002 Whittle Pirate Monkey Kit

 

2469 Floral Cake Pop Up Easel

 

sp1011 Leafy 6×6 pack

 

JWL002 Pastel Jewels