Challenge: Pop It Up #G45PopUP

This week, I decided to complete three challenges with one card: The Graphic45 Community September Challenge: "Create a  Pop-Up 3-D Project with Graphic45", the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge for September 12, 2018:" Pop It Up!" the Frilly and Funkie Challenge for September 12, 2018: "All Creatures Great and Small". The first two were obvious as both call for pop ups in a project and to add in the third, all I needed was to find some Graphic45 papers that featured creatures, be they great or small! Easy Peasy!

I started with creating my pop-up background paper. To be honest, I was pulling a blank here and had to go searching for templates but I finally worked it out on my own (I have no clue as to why this was such an issue for me. Honestly, I've made dozens of this kind of card...) and came up with this base:

Next, I selected my Graphic45 papers (from the Safari Adventures collection) and fussy cut a few birds...

The background needed a little something, something so I searched my stash of 'tover die-cuts and found some leaves that had been cut from the same paper collection. The birds now resided in a proper tropical jungle:

A sentiment...

and a card face to finish:

Products used in the making of this card were:

• Stamps: Graphic45/Hampton Arts “Safari Adventure #`” (ICO362) and “Safari Adventure #2 (ICO363)
• Dies: Sizzix Thinlits “Tropical” (661207)
• Inks: Versamark; Hero Arts “Pine”
• Embossing Powders: Stampendous “detail white” (47788)
• Papers: Paper Studio A2 Notecard “ivory” (225219); Graphic45 Safari Adventure 8x8 ( “Jungle Expedition” and “Birds of a Feather” - 4501368) and Patterns & Solids 6x6 (4501367); FiberScraps TintZ paper 12 x 12 “Moss-Verdigris”
• Adhesives: Duck Easy Stick Double Stick Adhesive