Pampered Pets meets Animal Talk for a masculine birthday card

 I received an order the other day, for a masculine hand made card. Nothing fancy but with a cat on it was the request. So I dug out some recently retired DSP (paper pack) called “Playful Pets” and the coordinating “Pampered Pets” stamp set. And then I remembered that I still had an  old stamp set called “Animal Talk” and decided it was time to pull that one out again. The “Animal Talk” stamp set was perfect except for one thing. 

And since I love making fun fold cards for special people, I decided on a simple but fun design called a center step card. With only a single rhinestone and no ribbon (cuz generally masculine cards don’t do bling and ribbon). Here’s how the card turned out:

This card measures the same as the standard A2 card (5.5 x 4.25”) but the side panels are recessed which makes this card totally 3D! The cat “message” was a thank you sentiment but the dog one said “happy birthday”. So I used the first part of the cat “talk” and the second part from the dog “talk”. Here’s what the card looks like opened up. 

Hmm….but you still don’t see the 3D effect! So here are a few photos of a blank card base in white, front and back, if you can imagine that with printed paper and words: 

And in the event that anyone is interested in making one, here are the cutting and scoring (fold line) dimensions (score lines are shown as dotted lines):

Let me know if you try this, or want to but have difficulties in reading the dimensions, etc. Thanks, as always, for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!