Fun Fold Birthday Card

 Hello, everyone!  I have more exciting news: I have been asked to become part of the Design Team for Critter Crazy Challenges!!  Such an honor!!  It is a monthly challenge and every month the theme is always: Anything Goes featuring a creature.  Nice and easy!

And here is my card:

I made this for my oldest daughter's birthday last weekend.  It is a fun "Never-ending card".  I used this tutorial here.  She has a stripey orange cat and I have an orange stripey cat, so I "needed" to make her card loaded with orange stripey kitties!  For the "front" of the card, I used one of the kitties and some die cut balloons along with a die cut sentiment.  As you open it to the next panel, there are more sentiments and lots of orange kitties!!

Opening to the next panel, we have more kitties, a balloon, and the die cut age.

The final panel has another sentiment and a section where I wrote a message to my daughter.  The pattern was a little busy for the sentiment and the message, so I toned them down a little by adding a piece of vellum to each.

This card is really so fun!  So much so, that my Mom, who was there when my daughter opened it, requested one for her birthday!  She said she didn't care what was on it, she just wanted one with this fold.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Head over to the Crazy Critter blog for all the details and to see the rest of the creations from the design team.

Supplies:

Panel one:

Stamps: MFT "Cat-astrophe"

Dies: MFT "In Stitches Alphabet" and balloons; Papertrey Ink numbers border die

Panel two:

Stamps: MFT "Cat-astrophe"; Papertrey Ink "Perfect Pairs: Commodities"

Dies: Papertrey Ink "Perfect Pairs: Commodities"

Panel Three:

Stamps: MFT "Cat-astrophe"

Dies: MFT balloons; Papertrey Ink "By the Numbers"

Panel Four:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink birthday sentiment (I couldn't find it in the store)

Challenges:

Pattie's Creations Challenge #204--anything goes

Cutie Pie--beginning with "B" (birthday, B die, balloons, ball of yarn)

Crafty Gal's Corner Challenge #241--make it green

Double Trouble #134--PAWsome pets (Thing #1: pups and/or kittens; Thing #3: pun fun--sentiment on panel 2; Thing #2: play along with Use Your Stuff Challenge--I missed the deadline!)

Fab n' Funky #569--lots of layers

As You Like It--People or critters (I do like both, actually, but I would probably opt for animals more often.  They are super cute and you don't have to color them as realistic all the time.)

Creative Fingers--anything goes

Creative Creases Challenge--anything goes with a fun fold

Word Art Wednesday #589--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Paper Shelter #547--for a child (she is technically a teen, but still a child)

Penny's Challenge #543--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

Krafty Chicks #657--anything goes

Di's Digi Designs--things with wings and/or tails