Turning ONE!

 Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Feeling Blue (use blue as the predominate color)

Here is my card for your inspiration:

This weekend we are celebrating the first birthday of a sweet little boy in our family.  This is the card I created for him.  One of the best things about handmade cards is that you can personalize them to the recipient.  With this spelling of his name, he will never be able to find mass produced items with his name on it, but he will have a card with his name on it!  I die cut the frame and trimmed some scraps of blue patterned papers to fit behind the frame.  Then I die cut the letters of his name and the number "1" out of dark blue card stock.  I stamped the sentiment directly onto one of the patterned paper panels and then stamped the elephant on a scrap left over from cutting one of the other panels.  I added a little shading to the elephant with a gray marker and then fussy cut him out and adhered him to the fourth panel.  It is super cute and relatively easy--the hardest part was getting the letters squished together enough to fit in that panel!  It was a tight fit, but eventually I managed to do it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Verve "Emory"; PaperTrey Ink "Big Birthday Wishes"

Dies: PaperTrey Ink letters and number; Lawn Fawn frame panel

Challenges:

Cutie Pie #195--Dads AND/OR lads (I went with lads)

Crafty Calendar--for a child

Sheepski Designs #87--anything goes

613 Avenue Create--anything goes with the optional twist: for the guys

Make My Monday #227--B is for Blue and Birthday

Double Trouble #168--We Dare You (Thing #1: masculine)

Inkspirational Challenge #317--frame

Creative Knockouts #523--2 or more patterned papers

Cupcake Inspiration #596--for the guys

Tuesday Morning Sketches #760--sketch (I turned it horizontally)