A few months later …

Hello friends! A busy Christmas/new year period, different family happenings, church commitments, plus a lack of motivation and energy has meant no time spent in my craft room 🙁 The solution? I offered to make birthday cards for our younger Kids Church class which helped motivate me, and the advertising for a church event provided the missing inspiration ~ meerkats!!

I’m so glad I kept this 2020 stamp set – it was perfect for what I wanted 🙂

This is the birthday card design I settled on:

I added a layer of embossed birthday words to the white card bases:

And used a LOT of double-sided tape to make sure they stayed attached to the card fronts!

This stamp positioning tool was really useful for making multiple cards 🙂

No coordinating dies for the stamps meant lots of fussy cutting, but once that was done, I decided not to colour them ~ too much extra effort!

I’ve discovered that a group of meerkats is a ‘clan’, ‘mob’ or ‘gang’; perfect for representing the other kids in their group at church 🙂

Most children are excited about their birthday number so I made them extra special by die-cutting the numbers from thick sparkly paper:

If you look closely, you’ll see that the position of this meerkat to the number ‘6’…… differs to its position to the number ‘7’ …… and differs again to its position to the number ‘8’:MEANWHILE …  I discovered that using a thumb trigger ice cream scoop is an excellent way to top the meat/veg layer of Shepherd’s Pie with mashed potatoes (and yes, I added some grated cheese, too!):

Thanks so much for spending some time with me and I hope to see you again soon 🙂 Megan xo