Dinosaur Birthday

I made this tongue-in-cheek card for my FIL for his birthday. The inside read: Sorry your old friends couldn't make your party! Meaning the dinosaurs, of course!! hee hee!


Recipe:
Dinosaur Tracks Cricut Cartridge
Stampin' Up! Cardstock
Green Tea paper stack from DCWV (patterned paper on T-Rex)
Background Patterned Paper is also from a DCWV stack, but I have no idea what the name of it is...it is maybe 5-7 years old!!
Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Walnut Stain, for the edges of everything!
Pop-Dots under the dinosaurs, to add a little more dimension

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Celebrate the Occasion *and* Karen-Kakes-Krafts Challenge!

I have combined challenges again with this card!! Love it! My hubby got me the Best of Pixar cartridge for a surprise late Christmas gift, so I HAD to use it for his birthday card....of course, since he is my Mr. Incredible!! LOL!! I am entering this card in the Celebrate the Occasion challenge for this week---Create a Masculine Birthday project, card, or layout. I am also entering it in the first challenge of Karen's-Kakes-Krafts blog! Her challenge was to create a card or a layout for a Celebration of any kind.

Here you go!!



Recipe:
Best of Pixar Cricut Cartridge
Preserves Cricut Cartridge (tag)
Batman:the Brave and the Bold Cricut Cartridge (Happy Birthday sentiment)
Solid Cardstock--Stampin' Up!
Patterned Paper--DCWV
D'vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder
Pebbles Chalk
White Sakura Gel Pen

Bling!!

This scalloped-shaped birthday card was made with the Cindy Loo and Once Upon a Princess Cricut Cartridges. I welded 2 scalloped 'shadows' together using my Gypsy, and cut the adorable doily scene with the deer and squirrel. I wanted to add some color and dimension, so I used my Gypsy to size and match up the deer and squirrel individual images with the doily scene, cut them in shades of blue and purple, and pop-dotted them over the top of their silhouette images on the doily scene. I added some BLING (gotta love BLING!) to the trees in the form of clear, silver-backed 2mm rhinestones by Nicole. (I'm thinkin' I need an i-Rock tool!!) I added a white gel pen dot to each critter for a twinkle in their eye.




The inside sentiment was cut from OUAP, and I used the same colors as I did for the deer, as well as adding more BLING to tie it all together! This pretty card was given to my MIL for her birthday.



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Another Shaped Birthday Card

Here is another very simple birthday card that I made with the Hello Kitty Greetings shaped card feature. (another go-to for when I forget birthdays!! OOPS! I must do that often, if I now have 2 go-to's!!) I did add a little extra to this one though, with a matching Prima flower, simple white button, and a little embroidery floss! I think it gave it just a little oomph that it needed!



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Simple Shaped Birthday Card

My wonderfully scrapping-supportive hubby came home with an armload of cartridges for me a few weeks ago! YAY! One of them was Hello Kitty Greetings and I have LOVED playing with this one! It is so stinkin' cute! And a lot of it is not really "Hello Kitty" oriented. I made this using the 'shaped card' feature. I usually like to use my Cricut Design Studio or my Gypsy to add my own twist to my designs, however, I found this to be a pretty card that was very quick to put together, and could be a go-to card for those I-forgot-it-was-your-birthday moments (we all have 'em, right?!?!).


I couldn't quite get all the small pieces into the letters...the 'APPBRDA' letters should have more blue in with the black...but I guess I think it looks just as good without!!


A close-up photo of the papers I used...The Green Tea paper stack from DCWV. I am in LOVE with this stack, especially for 'boy' cards!!!

Thanks for looking! Remember, I LOVE your COMMENTS!! :)