Yarn Birthday

Happy August 1st!!  It's time for a new challenge on the Critter Crazy Challenge blog!  As always, it is a month long challenge: Anything Goes as long as you feature a creature.  Here is my card for your inspiration:

This birthday card is for my nephew; he just turned 12!  A couple years ago, he and his two siblings were super into stuffed animal kitties.  Hopefully he will still appreciate this cat themed card.  I had some fun with this one.  I chose a bright and happy background and then chose the rest of my color scheme from there.  I stamped the cat bed on an melon card stock and then again on a scrap of paper from the same pack as the background piece.  Then I fussy cut them both out and pieced them together so the bed has a pretty cushion inside.  I stamped colored and die cut the kitty and stamped and cut out the yarn ball.  I thought it would be "fun" to give it some texture so I cut tiny pieces of twine and glued them in place over the lines on the ball.  It worked, sort of.  It didn't turn out exactly as I thought and there was a lot of glue stuck to my fingers!!  But in the end I think it added a fun touch.  I used the same twine to tie to the balloon and made it look like it connected to the yarn ball that the kitty is playing with.

I stamped the sentiment and some matching images from the same set on the inside.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hop on over to the Critter Crazy blog and check out the details and the rest of the projects from the Design Team.

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn "Meow You Doin'"

Dies: Lawn Fawn "Meow You Doin'"; MFT "Blueprints 26"

Challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #763--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Krafty Chicks #831--anything goes with the optional twist: summer mood board (I was inspired by the bright dots in the lower right corner

Creative Fingers #327--anything goes

Shopping Our Stash #579--What's the good Word? (mine is "happy")

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes