Hey Birthday Chic for the Birthday Bonanza Pals Blog Hop

Hello, welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! This month our Design Team created “Birthday Bonanza” projects to inspire you to make for all of your family and friends. We hope you enjoy and are inspired by them! Don’t forget to leave comments because we all love hearing from you! At the end of my post, you will find the full line-up to help you “hop” along from Pal to Pal.

With a “Birthday Bonanza” theme this month, I just had to make a fun fold with the Hey Chic stamp sets. There are so many celebratory chickens, who could resist?

Between the two sets, I had eight different chickens to choose from. I narrowed it down to my favorites and made a fun fold to make sure there was room for all of them.

The fun fold is from another demonstrator, Bronwyn Eastley, that I purchased a PDF from a long time ago. I did, however, change a couple of sizes on it.

To make the card

• Begin with a 5 1/2″ x 12″ piece of Gray Granite card stock, score and fold at 2″, 4″, and 8″ to form your card base. 

• Cut two 1 1/2 ” x 8″ pieces of Gray Granite card stock, score and fold at 4″ and 6″ to form the “z’s” for the top edge and bottom edge of the card.  

• Sandwich the following sized pieces of Crumb Cake card stock in the Pinewood Planks embossing folder and run through your Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine: 2 pieces of 5 1/4″ x 3 3/4″, 2 pieces of 5 1/4″ x 1 3/4″, 2 pieces of 1 1/4″ x 3 3/4″, and 4 pieces of 1 1/4″ x 1 3/4″.
• Adhere the corresponding embossed Crumb Cake pieces to the card base and “z” fold pieces so that each piece fits equally in between all the ends and folds using Stampin’ SEAL.
• Attach the “z” pieces to the card by adhering the left side of the 4″ pieces to the top and bottom edges of the 2″ fold of the card base. (this is the very front of your card)
• Adhere the right side of the “z” pieces to the 8″ fold mark on the card base. (you should now have a boxed “z” fold card)

Time for the birthday bonanza chickens

• Stamp all the chickens on a piece of Basic White card stock using Tuxedo Memento black ink and color with the following Stampin’ Blends: Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Gray Granite, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Soft Suede, and So Saffron.
• Using your Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine, crop out the following: all your chickens with the Birthday Chick dies and Hey Chick dies, 6 Real Red streamers and a Real Red Happy Birthday with the Birthday Chick dies, and a Real Red and Basic White label with the Stitched So Sweetly dies.
• Adhere the Real Red streamers across the top of the card and the Happy Birthday sentiment on the bottom front using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
• Stamp your sentiment on the Basic White label using Real Red ink, adhere to the Real Red label and attach to the card using Stampin’ SEAL.
• Layer and adhere the orange and yellow chicken behind the bottom “z” fold and the tan/black chicken to the bottom middle of the card using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
• Adhere the rest of the chickens to the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals as shown.

Although this card is rather thick when all is said and done, it will still fit in an envelope. However, it require some extra postage.

A complete PDF tutorial can be found by clicking on the button below.

More inspiration awaits! Use the Blog Hop Line-up below to visit the rest of this month’s Design Team. My fellow Pals are excited to show you what they’ve created! Mark your calendars for our next blog hop on March 10th when our theme will be “Cute Critters” where the design team will be sharing projects that will feature critters of all sorts to inspire you. Don’t miss the fun! Until then, please stay safe and have fun in your craft room.

BLOG HOP LINEUP

1. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
2. Melissa Seplowitz at The Stamping Ninja
3. Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
4. Lori Pinto at LollyPop Paper and Ink
5. Rosanne Mulhern at Heartfelt Stamping
6. Renae Novak at Blessed By Cards w/Renae Novak
7. Su Mohr at Aromas And Art
8. Windy Ellard at Windy’s Wonderful Creations
9. Deb Walker at Deb Stamps Life
10. Stesha Bloodhart at Stampin’ Hoot!
11. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
12. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
13. Jeanie Stark at Just Stampin’
14. Rae Harper Burnet at Wild West Paper Arts
15. Debbie Mageed at Secrets to Stamping
16. Ann Murray at Murray Stamps INK
17. Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping
18. Jennifer Roque at Stamp Camp with Jen
19. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
20. Sara Stuart at Sentiments by Sara
21. Lisa Milligan at Stamping Made Simple
22. Leah O’Brien at Honey Bee Stamping & More!
23. Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
24. Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
25. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stamping Habit
26. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
27. Mary Hanson at Up North Stampin’
28. Lori Webb at Clever Copies
29. Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery

I would love to hear from you. Please let me know what you think of my Hey Birthday Chic for the Birthday Bonanza card.