Last Cards of the Month!

We've reached the end of the crazy month filled with birthdays and anniversaries!  I have two last cards to share today.

The first is a birthday card I made using the current sketch at Cardabilities.

I stuck very close to the sketch, using Echo Park For the Record 2.  I am really loving the colors of that collection! I fussy cut the doily and the scallop border.  The border was actually cut from the cut-off strip that shows the pattern on the other side, it was the perfect size!  The flowers and the pearl were the last of the package- woo hoo for using up product!!

For the second card, I used this week's sketch at Unscripted Sketches to make a card for my son who turned 3 today!  

My son requested a "lion eating a zebra" for decorations on his cake this year.  He has been obsessed with that subject for quite a while.  He is really into animals in general (he spends a lot of time acting like an animal too), so I went with that theme for the card (as did a few others who made homemade cards for him). :)  The Cricut cut is from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.  I used some Core'dinations cardstock behind the lion boy and dry embossed it and then sanded it to reveal the inner core.  The sentiments down the side are rub ons that I placed on circles I had cut from cardstock.  

In case you were wondering, this is how I decorated his cake.  :)