Are You KIDding Me Challenge 197

May's Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197 is all about children. As kids say and do the darnest things you get extra points if your card is funny! 

Here's my card which was created with two of the odd kids from Lost Coast Designs' new Cartoon Kids release! There are six children and two critters in the Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set.

Products Used:

Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set by Lost Coast Designs

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

White Heavystock Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Comic Book Pop 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad by Funky Fossil Designs

Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink by Gina K Designs

Copic Markers: 

 Skin: BV000, BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E000

 Cheeks: R20

 Hair: N7, N6, N5

 Eyes: E71, E70, BG23, BG10, BG000

 Clothing: Y26, Y23, YG03, G24, B34, B32

 Floor: R56

Olo Markers: B0.7, B0.5

Metallic Silver Pen by Pentel

Black Glaze Pen By Sakura

Black Pigma Pen by Sakura

Heart Die by Sizzix

Mini Star and Mini Star Alphabet Die Sets by QuicKutz

Americana Circuit Stencil by DecoArt

Anti-static Pouch

Starlite Silver Brilliance Ink by Imagine/Tsukeko

Detail Silver Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Frayed Frames Die Set 26 by AALL and Create (available at Topflight Stamps)

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Notes:

• I thought that the staticky haired girl and boy Cartoon Kids looked like they had been zapped with electricity, so I decided to tell a little story with my card.
• I should have cut silver cardstock with the squigly/staticky line dies from the Frayed Frames Die Set 26. Alas.

Instructions:

1. Create an A6 card from white Heavystock cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink to stamp the spiky haired girl and boy from the Cartoon Kids Rubber Stamp Set onto white cardstock. 
3. Fussy-cut the head and bodies of the kids.
4. Color the kids with Copic and/or Olo markers. 
5. Use the silver Metallic pen to color the sweatshirt's zipper and tab.
6. Edge the kids with a black Pigma pen and set them aside to bond.
7. Trim a piece of the comic book page patterned paper from Comic Book Pop 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad to 4.25" x 6".
8. Trim the sentiments you want to use from the Comic Book Pop 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad.
9. Adhere the "When Suddenly" sentiment in the top left blue circle panel.
10. Adhere the "So it begins" sentiment to the bottom right panel as shown.
11. Use Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink to stamp the spiky haired girl Cartoon Kid onto the red panel.
12. Use Obsidian Black Amalgam Ink to stamp the spiky haired boy Cartoon Kid onto the yellow orange panel.
13. Trace the spiky hair of both the girl and the boy with Black Glaze pen to make it dimensional. 
14. Let the dimensional Glaze ink dry.
15. Use the Mini Star Alphabet Die Set to cut the red halftone dots patterned paper from the Comic Book Pop 6x6 Patterned Paper Pad.
16. Use the Mini Star Shadow Alphabet Die Set to cut white cardstock.
17. Adhere the red die-cut letters onto the white shadow die-cut letters.
18. Pounce the anti-static pouch onto a small piece of white cardstock.
19. Place the white cardstock onto the STAY-tion.
20. Use magnets and/or low-tack tape to secure the Circuit Stencil atop the white cardtock on the STAY-tion.
21. Sponge Starlite Silver Brilliance Ink over the Circuit Stencil onto the white cardstock.
22. Add Detail Silver Embossing Powder to the wet ink, pour the excess powder back into the container, and melt the powder on the panel.
23. Use a heart die to cut the stenciled, embossed white cardstock.
24. Use the squigly/staticky line dies from the Frayed Frames Die Set 26 to cut a scrap of black cardstock so you end up with the die-cuts.
25. Place the comic book page background on the STAY-tion.
26. Use a magnet to temporarily secure the heart die-cut between the top two panels of the comic book page.
27. Adhere one squigly line die-cut diagonally from the heart angling towards the girl Cartoon Kid.
28. Adhere another quigly line die-cut diagonally from the heart angling towards the boy Cartoon Kid.
29. Adhere one of the squigly lines between the girl and boy Cartoon Kids.
30. Adhere the girl Cartoon Kid atop her counterpart in the red panel and use a red Copic marker to add a shadow under her shoes to ground her (to the background). If she were electrically grounded the shock thing wouldn't have worked.
31. Adhere the boy Cartoon Kid atop his counterpart in the yellow/orange panel as shown.
32. Adhere the "ZAP" sentiment die-cuts to the upper right panel as shown.
33. Adhere the card front to the reserved white A6 card.

Public Service Announcement:

You still have time to create a project to enter May's Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Are You Kidding Me? Challenge 197! You can enter more than once increasing your chances of winning Lost Coast Designs CA$H!

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