Thursday, June 09, 2011

For Me?!

Day 99 at 365 Cards is to make a birthday card that you would want to recieve if one was designed just for you. I was having a hard time narrowing down just exactly what I wanted to do, until I saw the challenge at Cooking with Cricut. Their challenge is "Pick Your Poison," to use your favorite cartridge and favorite color to create your project. I decided to combine these two challenges and came up with this birthday card that I would love to get!
Simply Charmed is one of my favorite cartridges, there are just so many cute images on it. My favorite one is the penguin! I used the penguin to create a shaped card. Using my Gypsy I welded two shadow images of the penguin and cut it out of glittery black cardstock. The penguin is cut at 5." I created the rest of the penguin with regular cardstock. One of my favorite colors is blue, so I used that for the party hat, candle and stamping on the banner. I used Paper Pups for the party hat, the regular and solid feature, it is cut at 2 3/4." The banner is cut at 3 1/2" from Jubilee. I stamped the sentiment on there and added some dots of midnight blue Stickles. The cupcake is from Doodlecharms and cut at 2 1/2." I embossed the icing layer with D'vine Swirls, then drew over the swirls with liquid pearls. I used glossy accents on his beak and the candle, crackle accents on his feet and some yellow Stickles on the candle flame. How much fun is this card?! I love it!!

8 comments:

  1. This card is adorable with his little cupcake.

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  2. I love what you did with the icing on the cupcake. Very cute!

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  3. This is the cutest card, Paula! Love the details on your cupcake. Thanks for joining us this week at Cooking With Cricut.

    ~ Jen, CWC Design Team
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  4. This is adorable! Love the penguin and the embossing is great. Thanks for playing along with us at Cooking with Cricut.

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  5. I have to get that penguin! One of my friends is a huge penguin fan.
    -etch

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  6. I saw your card on Cooking with Cricut and had to check your blog out. I'm a new follower!

    Your penguin is terrific.

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  7. That is really adorable. New follower!
    Happy weekend.

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