As you know, I’m a huge fan of Katzelkraft critter stamps. They are super cute and whimsical, and the Farm Animals Stamp Set<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is a great addition to their sets of dogs, cats, birds and monsters. These animals are perfect for punny cards. This is the second of two cards that I made for my design team project for Topflight Stamps (the first is HERE<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n

<\/a>For this card, I used the laughing donkey stamp along with the karate person kicking from the Diemond Dies Karate Die Set #1<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to make a silly Fathers Day card. I printed from my computer the partial sentiment, “Hope your Father’s Day is…” and then I added the kicking person plus the donkey to pictograph the word, “Kick Ass.”<\/p>\n

To keep the clean, CAS look, I first die cut the kicking person from white fun foam, but because I thought the dimension was not enough to give it enough visual weight to stand up next to the donkey, I added a lemon yellow kicking person die cut over top. And so that the karate person didn’t look like he was floating, I used a Tim Holtz Shattered Stencil<\/a><\/span> and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink<\/a><\/span> to indicate where the kick had hit a shattered glass background. I masked off the donkey before blending on the ink through the stencil using a Clarity Stamp Stencil Brush<\/a><\/span>, which enabled me to gradually soften the broken glass look to blend to the white of the card front.<\/p>\n

I used the following Copic colors for the Donkey: E01, E02, E97, W0, W1 with R14 for gums and tongue; and the ground under karate person and donkey was shadowed with N2. Using these colors I thought gave the overall card a balanced look with softer versions of the primary colors as the main colors of the card (lemon yellow, summer\/light blue, and warm peach).<\/p>\n

The following is a process video of creating this and the funny farm cow card from the prior post:<\/p>\n