This is a 15 cm square card made with a combination of animal stamp sets from Stampin’ Up!

The giraffes, kangaroo, frog and bluebird are from the Animal Outing set. The meercats and chameleon are from The Gang’s All Meer set and the lion, monkey, koala and bears are from the Birthday Buddies set.

The birthday Buddies set only has 3 creatures, a bird, lion and koala but it is easy to make other animals from them. The bears are just the lion stamp, minus the tail and stamped in brown. The monkey is the same but it’s face is hand drawn and it’s ears are cut off. I have given it new ears using the tip of the lion’s tail.

The base of my card is Balmy Blue 15 cm x 30 cm and scored in half at 15 cm.
A whisper white square is Matted on top, measuring 14.6 cm square.
I then stamped and die cut or fussy cut out all the animals I wanted.
I took a 14 cm x 4 cm piece of balmy blue card and embossed with the high seas embossing folder and lightly dauber-ed the waves for more definition.
I created a template by sketching on the metric grid paper and cutting out with it folded in half so that it was symmetrical. (As the template is complete now, all you need to do is download it and trace around it, to cut out your 2 pieces).
I made the top of the ark first. The top of the ark is crumb cake embossed with pinewood planks embossing folder and lightly dauber-ed. Punch a 1″ circle as indicated by the template. Glue two giraffes poking through the circle. Add a piece of black card from behind the giraffes to full in the circle. Adhere strips of soft suede card either side of the ark “cabin”. These strips are both 6 cm x 0.7cm. They are dauber-ed. Mitre the ends where they meet at the top and cover the join with another very small strip of card. Glue this piece to a 14 cm square seaside spray card at the top. Position the rest of the animals where you want them to go but wait until you have the bottom of the ark ready before you glue in place.

The bottom of the ark is soft suede and stamped with the Birch background stamp and dauber-ed around the edges. Punch two 1″ circles as indicated by the template.
Place koala and monkey through the circles and glue in place. Add a strip of black card behind the animals, (from the back). Adhere bottom of the ark over the top piece, but take care not to put the glue too close to the top edge as you want to be able to tuck the animals just under the top edge. Glue the rest of the animals in place. Some animals had their legs cut off as it made it easier to tuck them under. Cut along the embossed wave on the balmy blue piece you did earlier and adhere to the bottom of the ark.