One Crazy Stamper May Challenge

It's time for a brand new challenge on the One Crazy Stamper blog - and for May, it is "Anything Goes" - you can use any products you like, just no digi stamps, please!  I am sharing a square card with Bertha Big Mouth - she is one of the three new Big Mouth stamp sets from Art Impressions, and Lora has all three of them available in the OCS store.  I have a few photos to show how I've put her together, so scroll down for more info.  Here's my little sweetheart:

Here is what she'll look like when the recipient receives the card... she's not a small gal, as the card is 5 1/2" square.  Then you pull on the tab, and...

her mouth opens to show her rather toothy grin.  The inside sentiment is "It's your birthday.  Smile while you still have teeth!"

After colouring the stamped image of Bertha with Copics, you use the die that is included with the set to cut out her chin, and along the seam of her lips.  This little section that you cut out, is then glued onto a pull tab where you've stamped and cut out her teeth as shown below:

I've glued a 1 1/2" square of black paper onto my base, under where her mouth will be, and have cut two slits that the pull tab will be threaded through.

After threading the pull tab through the slits, I glued the white mat onto my card base. I put pop dots on the back of Bertha, being sure to leave the area under her chin open so the pull tab can move, and then she was positioned over the chin and adhered.

In this closeup, you can see how her chin and lower lip are just a little lower than the rest of her.

And here she is with the tab pulled down about 1/2".  There are a few steps involved in putting the Big Mouths together - but they're easy to do.  Check out what the rest of the One Crazy Stamper Design Team has to share with you today on the OCS blog!

Product available in the OCS store: Bertha Big Mouth from Art Impressions

Xpress It Blending Cardstock, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, 

Copics: E37, E34, E31, E18, E07, E02, G46, G43, G41, Y26, Y23, R85, R83, R81, E51

Introducing... Ai Big Mouths!

The Art Impressions Design Team are launching a brand new line now available through the Art Impressions website: Ai Big Mouths!  These are the most hilarious stamp sets... there are three different ones, and I am sharing Bertha Big Mouth (Sku #4566) today:

and when you pull on the tab...

 If you scroll down, you'll see that the inside sentiment says: "It's your birthday... smile while you still have teeth!"  I love that her toothless grin is a little unexpected :o)  She comes with the Bertha image, as well as a set of teeth stamp - and a complete set of instructions.

The teeth are stamped on a pull tab, and her lower lip and chin are cut out in a square shape that is glued onto the pull tab, just below the teeth.  A black square is glued under where Betha's mouth will be positioned, and two slits are cut just below it - where the pull tab will be threaded through.

After threading the pull tab and gluing down the circle, I positioned Bertha overtop of the black square and set the lips closed ready to be pulled open by the recipient.

You'll want to check out the Art Impressions blog to see the other two images, and the samples by the rest of the Design Team.  We're also starting a new challenge today on the Ai blog, which is "Make Me Smile" pretty appropriate to go with the new Big Mouths, don't you think?

Copics used: Skin - E11, E00, E000

Pinks - R81, R83, R85, R89

Greens - G41, G43, G46

Yellows - Y17, Y13, Y11

Greys - C5, C3, C1, C00

Lips - R35, R32, R30