Monkey See, Monkey Do

Hello Nomad Friends.  There's a new challenge over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and it's gonna be such fun!!!  The title is Monkey See, Monkey Do and we want to see your stamped projects that feature a monkey and/or a repeat stamped image.  So dig out your monkeys, or stutter your stamping for a chance to win Lost Coast $$$$$'s.   

I must say the team is loving this theme so do pop over and check out the makes.  Here's mine featuring Carmen's Veranda adorable Monkey with Banjo and Lost Coast Designs Party Words.

In case you missed it this is a birthday card!!

I decided I wanted a spring look so smeared Mowed Lawn and Ancient Amber distress OX on my craft mat, spritzed with water and smooched my white card in it.  I dried the ink and then repeated, cos we are all about repeating this fortnight LOL.  I did it again and declared myself happy.

I used Lost Coast Designs Grunge 3" Border off block with Mowed Lawn and Crushed Olive distress ink to randomly stamp bits of the pattern over the inked background.  This is a huge stamp with loads of interesting details.

I took the vertical Happy Birthday words from Lost Coast Designs Party Words set and stamped it repeatedly across my background using grey archival ink.  I also stamped it twice again with black archival.

Using a Stamplorations large rectangle double crazy stitch die I cut the background panel and, with a bit of fiddly cutting, the two side panels.   Everything got edged with Mowed Lawn distress ink.  I stamped Monkey with Banjo, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  He needed somewhere to stand, and just to make sure my message made it through, I stamped the horizontal Happy Birthday from the Party Words set on an offcut of my coloured panel and placed it along the bottom of the card.

Thanks for dropping by.  I really hope you feel inspired to dig out your monkey stamps, or do some repeat stamping, and join the fun at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  The linky is open until the end of the month.  See you there.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
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Uniko's 8th Birthday Linky Party
Dies R Us Challenge 139 - Wild Animals