Just swinging by....

So I mentioned yesterday that I got a few free stamps from High Hopes Rubber Stamps with my order I received over the weekend. I seem to be in a monkey mood lately so I decided to play with "Mike on a vine" first.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do with him....a tilt card. Since I saw this card on Beate's blog, I've been wanting to make a tilt card. I tried once before, but it didn't work with the image I used. I thought this one would be great to try again.

I went to Splitcoaststampers to take another look at the tutorial on making a tilt card.

First I embossed and colored in all of my images. I used "Mike on a Vine", the Jungle Background, Banana Tree and Jungle Leaf Corner (I purchased the background and tree, but the leaf corner was another free stamp from my order I placed for the golf cart images I used for my husband's father's day card...don't you just love free stamps?). I used a thin coaster and stamped Mike onto the coaster then cut him out and pasted the coaster image to the embossed and colored image of Mike on a Vine. I wanted to give the tilt image a little more weight so it would tilt easier.

I mounted the background onto Chocolate Chip CS and attached dimensionals on the back. I added extra dimensionals around the area of the tilt to make sure the CS didn't droop around the tilt. You may also notice that I used a dime instead of a penny. I thought the dime was thinner than a penny and that it would not drag on the card as much (which was my problem with the other card I attempted to make before).

I cut the vine down to the size I needed and attached it using Sticky Strip to the dime on the front of the card (there is a dimensional in between the dimes through a whole in the CS). You may notice the half circle cut-out on the background image...that was a mistake which I later glued the half circle back on.

Lastly, I attached the the background image to Creamy Caramel Card Base and pieces of the Jungle Leaf Corners to the corners of the card and to the tilt image to cover the dime.

So here is the tilt....

So, what do you think? Isn't he so cute?

Thanks for stopping by!

~Lacey

Comments

[Ila]

Absolutley Amazing and Gorgeous Lacey!! I love this tilt card and your coloring and design is Wonderful!!

[Susanna]

Lacey, this tutorial is AWESOME! Of course the card is adorable too :D

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[Sharon in NE]

This is great! Thanks for sharing!

[Ann Kloentrup]

Lacey, This card is way to cute it's a WOW! I ordered the New Sock Monkey from SU I wonder if I could do this with it. What a wonderful card and you have made it easy to make. Thanks for sharing with us all.

Ann

[Fiorella]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kelly Garland]

Does your talen know NO bounds??? Amazing girl...shock n awe all the way ;-) Trying to think of a reason to need monkey cards now ;-) xoxo KKG