Llama-palooza

Last week I was making birthday cards (because I'm always making birthday cards), and I had a crazy idea -- to make cards with all the llama-themed products I have and post them all together. A llama-palooza! Now, I've made llama cards and projects before, so these aren't anything terribly new or different. In fact, some of the cards are very similar to ones I've made before. But if I really like a design, why reinvent the wheel? (I just hope I don't give those cards to the same people.) So without further ado, bring out the llamas!

These two cards were made with the Birthday Fiesta stamps and dies (Stampin' Up!), and they may be my favorites of the bunch. I love the colors, the streamers, and the llamas' blankets. To color the blankets, I used five alcohol markers. I just made one stripe across of each color, close together, and they naturally blend together. Super easy, and it totally reminds me of colorful South American textiles.

For these next two cards I used the Llama Set 5458 (Art Impressions) along the Skinny Mini Party and Fiesta border dies (Taylored Expressions) for the streamers. These llamas definitely have some personality! I minimized my coloring by leaving the llamas white, but I think that makes them get a little lost on these cards. I should have used a different color background on the left card and added a layer of colored card stock behind the llamas on the right card. (I did add a die-cut vellum oval, which helped, but I'm not sure it was enough.) But they're still fun cards.

The llama images on these cards -- as well as the background papers -- are from the Llama Love card stock stack (Craft Smith). I fussy cut the large llamas from some of the paper designs -- and I've now used almost all the large llamas in the stack! There is still plenty of paper left, though, and I think many of the pages are small and/or tone-on-tone prints, so they shouldn't be too hard to use on other projects. For the sentiments, I used the Whole Llama Love stamp set (Taylored Expressions) to get some good llama puns.

Alright, these two cards might have to tie the first two for my favorites. I used the No Drama Llama dies and the Whole Llama Love stamps (both Taylored Expressions) and the Fiesta Forever card stock stack (Die Cuts With a View), and I love how these products work together. I used papers from the stack to cut out the llamas' accessories, so I know they'll match. And the printed pages make such fun backgrounds. I added some sparkly gel pen on the llamas' accessories for a little bling, but it doesn't really show up in the picture.

And that concludes today's llama-palooza. Did you have a favorite in the bunch?

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