Welcome to the Jungle

I created this card inspired by the photo in the InspirationStation Challenge #35. The whole jungle look of their picture for this challenge made me think of Doodle Pantry's "Safari Animals" digital set (discontinued). I decided to use all the animals in the set, along with its "Welcome to the Jungle" greeting. I'll be sending this card to Send a Smile 4 Kids.

I used Sketch #SC734 from Splitcoaststampers for my design. I created a 5-1/2x2-1/2" blank canvas in Photoshop, as per the sketch, and positioned the animal images on that, overlapping them slightly with each other. I created another 5-1/2x1-3/4" canvas, & positioned the greeting, leaving room for the chevrons in the sketch. I printed the animals onto a scrap of Strathmore Vellum Bristol paper, since I wanted to color them with my Prismacolor pencils. I printed the greeting onto a strip of tan patterned paper from my scrap stash.

After I colored the animals, I fussy cut them out. (I wanted to add a stenciled cloud background, which I felt would be much easier with the animals separate from the background.) I used a black glaze pen to go over the animals' eyes, & added in catchlights with a white gel pen.  For the sky, I used Speckled Egg Distress ink & My Favorite Things' "Mini Cloud Edges" stencil on white cardstock. I die cut 2 grass strips from a patterned paper scrap, with the My Favorite Things "Grassy Fields" dies (discontinued). I adhered the taller strip in place, glued down the animals, & then added the shorter strip in front of them.

I cut the 2 chevrons from patterned papers I found in my scrap stash, & glued them in place on the greeting strip. I adhered my background to a white A2-size card base, added my greeting strip, & that finished this card.

I'm also entering this card in Paper Funday's August 2022 "Anything Goes" Challenge #44.