Wildlife Wonder - great Masculine birthday cards

 I decided to take a bit of a break from Valentine's Day, (although I will be making a video later), and making a couple of cards using the Wildlife Wonder stamp set.  It's a distinctive stamp set, so a perfect stamp set for those who don't like to colour.

Both cards are birthday cards.

The first card is a fun fold card.  I don't recall what the name of it is.

As I mentioned, the card is a fun fold.  To make the card, score a 5 1/2 by 8 1/2" piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock, and score at 2, 3, 5 1/2, and 6 1/2".  Fold the two side pieces (2" and 6 1/2" score lines) as a valley fold ; the other two score lines a Mountain fold. The two side pieces can actually tuck behind the front piece so that it fits into an A2 card.

One of the main animals in the set is a bear, but there is a wolf and an owl as well. I stamped the bear on a 3 3/4 by 3" piece of Basic White card stock using the Stamparatus.  I had to stamp him twice with Basic Gray ink to get the depth of colour I wanted.  But before I stamped him, I stamped the ground twice using Cinnamon Cider ink. You could stamp the ground after stamping the bear but you would have to mask the bear legs.

The sentiment was stamped using Misty Moonlight Ink below the bear, and then this art piece was matted with a 3 7/8 by 3 1/8" piece of Cinnamon Cider card stock.

Measurements for card stock and DSP:

Misty Moonlight card stock:  5 1/2 by 8 1/2"  -card base

Cinnamon Cider card stock:    5 1/4 by 1 3/4"  (2 pieces) - side panels

                                                  5 1/4  by 2"  (1 piece) - middle panel

                                                  3 7/8 by 3 1/8" - mat for Basic White art piece

Basic White card stock: 3 3/4 by 3"

Beauty of the Earth DSP : 5 by 1 1/2"  (2 pieces) - add to Cinnamon Cider 

                                           5 by 1 1/4" (1 piece) - on Cinnamon Cider on middle

And finally, here is a side view.

after I stamped the ground