Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!

I have been having so much fun with the new Karen Burniston Bitty Ball Pop-Up, in conjunction with last year's Surprise Ball Pop-Up.   I have made a whole menagerie of animals using these two ingenious die sets.   The Bitty Ball is 20% smaller than the Surprise Ball, allowing the body of the animal to be slightly larger than the head.

Today's card is a tiger, wrapped up in a gatefold card.  I bought a pad of safari papers several years ago, and it was perfect for my wild jungle card.

These animals are so much fun to make!

Go Hog Wild!

It's Sneak Peek Time!  Karen Burniston has 16 new dies which are available for pre-order right now and will be shipping on August 3rd.    One of the fun dies is a smaller version of Karen's very popular Surprise Ball Pop-Up.  The new one is called Bitty Ball Pop-Up.  And to add to the fun, there are two additional sets designed so that making animals is much easier.  The one I'm using today is Animal Add-Ons 1.

      

The idea behind the Bitty Ball Pop-Up is that it is smaller and can be used as the head of your animal -- more in proportion than using two Surprise Ball Pop-Up elements.

The front of my card is relatively simple -- just the birthday sentiment and one of the previous animal dies -- the Pig.

But, when you open the card . . . 

. . . up pops the 3-D pig!  How fun is that!!!  The Bitty Ball Pop-Up requires a smaller rubber band than the Surprise Ball Pop-Up, but I just tied an additional knot in the #16 rubber band that I use for the larger ball.   I combined a new sentiment die (Go Wild) with the Alphabet dies to create a fun birthday wish.