Go Wild Mystery Monday Birthday Card

Last night I did my second Mystery Monday stamping project with TX Stampin' Sharon on Youtube (if you'd like to watch the replay and create a card with a layout like mine, follow this link: Hello Friend Mystery Stamping Card - YouTube), and I created a birthday card with the mystery clues she gave us this time. One of the shuts in from my church is turning 82 this Friday, and I wanted to send her a fun card to celebrate. I pulled out some birthday-themed card stock and some adorable animal stamps from Art Impressions (from the sets Bus Cubbies and Hedgehogs Set) and got busy following the step-by-step "clues" Sharon gave us to create the layout on the front of the card. I stamped and die cut my koala and giraffe and then colored them with Ohuhu Honolulu alcohol markers. I used foam tape to adhere them and the "Go wild" sentiment from an MFT stamp set to the front of the card. For the inside of the card, I created my own layout (Sharon's clues were only for the card front). I stamped the hedgehog and cactus and the punny "Let me keep this short and to the point" sentiment from the AI Hedgehogs set and colored the stamp with my Ohuhu Honolulu markers. Then I used a stitched rectangle die from Gina Marie Designs to die cut the sentiment. I fussy cut the hedgehog and adhered my layers to the inside of the card. 

Close up of the adorable little animals from the AI Bus Cubbies set:

Inside of the card:

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Challenges I'm entering:

Art Impressions Blog: Bonnie's Birthday Challenge #355 Week #2 (artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com): Happy Birthday, Bonne! (2/2; ends 7/20/23)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (1/3; ends 7/24/23) C10

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 8/1/23)

The Paper Shelter: Birthday (1/2; ends 7/18/23)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (4/5 for the week; 7/10 for the challenge; ends 7/19/23)

Creative Knockouts: Finish the inside (1/2; ends 7/20/23) C10

Allsorts challenge blog: ATG (2/3; ends 7/21/23)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 7/28/23)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG (1/3; ends 8/5/23)

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG (6/8; ends at the end of the month)

The Diva's that cut ....paper! (die-cut-divas.blogspot.com): Birthdays--my koala and giraffe were die cut with the coordinating dies in AI's Bus Cubbies stamp and die set (4/4; ends at the end of the month)