Bright Jungle Friends

Hello crafty friends, Marine here with you today, I’m happy to be back with this lovely tropical themed card featuring the Watercolor Oval stencil set, which I really enjoyed working with, as well as a little group of friends, all gathered to cheer on someone they love very much.

I started off by creating the background and cut a large Stitched Torn Rectangle panel out of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock. I temporarily stuck the middle part of the Watercolor Oval stencil set to my panel using pieces of rolled-up washi tape at the back of the stencil, and worked on the outside section of my panel, applying mowed lawn oxide ink first, and then a little bit of rustic wilderness oxide ink to the edges to darken the green a little bit more.

Next I placed one of the Layered Leaves & Flowers stencil (the one with just the leaves) on top of my panel and used rustic wilderness oxide ink again to add a leafy pattern to the edges of my Stitched Torn Rectangle panel. I removed the leafy stencil, splattered water and dried the panel with a paper towel, mixed some rustic wilderness oxide ink with water and used a slim brush to add more splatters, and then I did the same with copic opaque white ink mixed with a bit of water.

I removed the middle part of the Watercolor Oval stencil set, and once the inks were all dry, I temporarily taped the frame part of the Watercolor Oval stencil set to my panel, covering and protecting the green leafy edges, and then worked on the middle part of my panel. I first applied tumbled glass oxide ink all over that section, and then broken china oxide ink to the edges to darken the blue and bring more depth.

I wanted to add a leafy pattern to the middle section of my panel as well, and I wanted those leaves to be continuous with the green leaves but I couldn’t see well through the frame part of the Watercolor Oval stencil set, so I removed that stencil, aligned the leafy stencil with the green leaves and temporarily taped it to my panel, put the frame stencil back in place, and then added leaves to the middle section of my panel using broken china oxide ink. To add texture to that section, I removed the frame stencil and the leafy stencil, put the frame stencil back in place, splattered water all over the blue leafy section, and dried the panel with a paper towel. I mixed some broken china oxide ink with water and used a slim brush to add more splatters, and then I did the same with copic opaque white ink mixed with a bit of water.

And the background was done, so I set it aside to dry, and stamped my images on 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink. I cut them all with the matching dies, and colored everything using my Ohuhu markers and my Graph’it brush markers. As always, here is a list of the stamp sets I used: • Jungle Friends – lion, tiger, vines, leaves, flowers • Elephant Friends – elephant • Monkey Friends – monkey.

I added highlights and details to the images using a white gel pen, attached them all to my jungle themed panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, leaving enough space in the center for my “You’re an awesome friend” greeting from Hedgehog Friends. I attached the panel to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches pattern paper panel using 1mm foam tape, and then the whole thing to a white card base to totally finish the card.

And that’s it! Tropical/jungle themed cards are some of my favorites to make, and I’m glad I was able to create and share this one with you. Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!