Camping Critters Birthday Card

Hello, friends! It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and the perfect time for camping to enjoy the great outdoors. But maybe you’re like me and would much rather craft inside without the bugs, thank you very much? Toni here with you today, happily ready to share my camping critters birthday card from indoors.

The starry sky

To begin, I sponged a panel of Savoy 100% cotton cardstock for letterpress using Catherine Pooler inks. I gave that a quick dry with my heat gun then inked up the falling stars press plate with a juicy white pigment ink pad.

When I purchased this letterpress plate, it came with an embossing folder but I didn’t really understand why until this very moment. Notice how the stars are positioned to not overlap so you end up with both letter-pressed and 3D-embossed stars on the panel? How very cool is this effect?!

Setting the scene

When I was a child I had a blue and red tent that I love setting up in the summer so I could sleep outside. I used that tent as my inspiration for the colors I chose here.

• TENT: Pop Tone Red Hot, Pop Tone Wild Cherry, and Lessebo Misty Blue cardstocks
• TREES: Pop Tone Jellybean and Lessebo Moss Green cardstocks
• PEGS & GRASS: Lessebo Coffee Bean and DCS Discount Granny Smith cardstocks
• LANTERN: Pop Tone Black Licorice, Pop Tone Lemon Drop and Stardream Metallic Flame cardstocks
• FIRE: Stardream Metallic Flame, Stardream Metallic Jupiter and Discount Sand Castle Tan cardstocks
• GROUND: Glama Brown Kraft cardstock

Coloring the images

Understandably, I really enjoyed coloring up these Lawn Fawn critters using Copics. They’re just ever so cute. Technique-wise, I tried to create a lot of contrast between the sides facing the fire versus the shadow, adding a bit of yellow as well.

Finishing touches

And that brings us to my last couple of steps where I embossed the sentiment in white on a Classic Crest Patriot Blue cardstock banner. Finally, I added some highlighting using a white pigment pen.

As always, thanks for stopping by and checking out my camping critters birthday card. Have a great rest of your day!

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