Thursday, March 1, 2012

Carnival Birthday Card

For my card yesterday I used the current card sketch at Frosted Designs. I loved all the layers on this and stuck pretty close to the sketch. I also used the current Cooking With Cricut challenge which is to create a project with a Carnival or Carnival Birthday theme. I don't have any really Carnival cartridges, so I had to search a bit for this one. I thought I was pretty familiar with the different costumes on "Paper Doll Dress Up, but I didn't realize there was a clown on it! When I found that, I know that's what I needed to go with. This was a pretty labor intensive card with all the layers to the clown and then the ribbon flower. The ribbon that I used had stitching running through the center of it, so I was hoping I would be able to use that the gather it into a flower... no such luck. I ended up taking that stitching out and doing a running stitch of my own the make the flower. I added some interest to the white cardstock behind the clown by dry embossing it and then pressing it onto an inkpad. I ended up with more ink on it than I had planned, but decided to go with it. In the end, I am really pleased with how this one turned out!


5 comments:

  1. Such a cute card, Jessica! I love the color combination along with the twine, ribbon and buttons -- wonderful details. Thanks so much for linking up at Cooking With Cricut this week.

    ~ Jen, CWC Design Team

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  2. What an adorable clown! I really like the extra ink on the white cardstock! Thank you for joining us at Frosted Designs!

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  3. Cute cute card, and great clown cut, love it! Thanks for joining us at Cooking with Cricut this week!
    Hugs,
    Heather P
    www.heather-p.blogspot.com:

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  4. very cute, great image, thank you for joining our challenge at Frosted Designs, hugs, martina

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  5. Adorable birthday card!! Thanks so much for linking up at Cooking With Cricut this week.

    Yolie, CWC Design Team

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