Whimsy Stamps ~ Alien Escape

Hey crafty friends, I'm back with another crafty adventure, this time it was to create an alien themed card for my son. It's just been his 16th birthday and for the friends celebration, he chose to have an Alien Escape Room Adventure! So I themed his birthday card to match. The event is a collaborative puzzle which required all the friends to gather together to solve a series of clues and puzzles to be able to exit the room. By all accounts, the kids had a lot of fun!

Zac was a real puzzle lover when he was little and has continued to love brain teasers and complex conundrums since. So I gravitated to the Puzzle Pieces Die for this make. It's a mini slimline size, so I created the rest of the card with this canvas size in mind. 

It's hard to tell because it's such a lovely soft shade of pale lavender, but I made the Slimline Card base from the new Moonflower Cardstock from Simon Says Stamp. I thought the name was rather apt for this card, but so is the lovely lavender tone which worked nicely with the hues in the gorgeous paper. This is a page from the Lost In Space Slimline Paper Pack. I loved the blue and purple hues in this and coloured the aliens to work with this palette. I backed their diecuts with a strip of black cardstock to give them eery dark eyes. 

I puzzle pieced the background in, over strips of double sided adhesive, I swapped that top puzzle piece out for one I diecut from silver glitter cardstock and lay the puzzle piece over top as if the aliens were breaking through, perhaps from another dimension?! I was thinking of the kids in their Alien Escape Room busting through the door at the end, having solved all the puzzles, so was trying to capture that in this design. The aliens needed something behind them to break up the pattern as their colours were too close to the background, so I pulled out another mini slimline die and diecut one of these 'bursts' in the silver glitter cardstock to add behind them. I love how this turned out, it was the perfect fix to mute that busier background behind them. The burst comes from the Mini Slim Pickens 2 Die.

I used a fun sentiment from the ExtraTerrestrial Clear Stamp Set. I think it was a fun finish for this design, I added a little strip of silver glitter cardstock behind each strip, which I offset slightly. Love how that looks on this card. I did pop up the sentiments on foam strips for a little dimension and interest, because the rest of the design is quite flat. Though I did add a little dimension behind the aliens heads so it looks like they're popping out of the card, but they're teeny, so it's only impactful up close. 

One of the birthday pressies we gave our son was a steam voucher, though when I say a voucher, it was a promise that dad would put money on his account, so I made a voucher as a promise of that. I used a really cool Whimsy Stamps ticket die from one of their recent releases to make the voucher.

I diecut the ticket shape from black cardstock and some lettering from white cardstock. I used the Whimsy Stamps xoxo die to add under the word steam, which is the name of the platform we were buying our boy the credit on. The cogs, lettering and numbers are from Sizzix die sets, as I didn't have these the right size in my Whimsy stash. It was fun to create that little extra detail for his gift and this new ticket was a fun choice for the voucher. Thanks for popping in today, I hope you enjoyed seeing this creation. I'll be back soon with another crafty adventure. Until then I wish you beautiful and creative week. Hugs, Wends xoxo

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