"Smile" Doggy Card

I just had to fit in a card today.  I didn't have a lot of time to craft but I couldn't resist this little puppy!

I saw a design team member over at Fantabolous Cricut use this doggy from Paper Pups and instantly had this card in mind. I cut the pup at 3 1/2", but I cut his main layer three times, once in the light brown, once in yellow (for his duck floaty) and once in orange (for the beak). He's attached to the card base with pop dots.

All of the paper I used came from my scrap bin, the blue circle remind me of pool water or bubbles. :)  I added an embossed "smile" sentiment from my stash. Even the thick blue sheer ribbon is from my scrap bin.

I added just a few white doodle lines to the brown back ground layer.  Glossy Accents give the dogs nose some wonderful shine while some flat back adhesive black pearls add the perfect eyes for both the dog and the duck.

The oval card base (welded on my Gypsy) measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"... I grabbed this oval from Preserves, but you could use any oval you'd like.  I sized the additional layers to 4"x 5 1/4" and 3 3/4" x 5".

Challenges:
Fantabolous Cricut : Pool Time
 Hiding in my Craftroom : Use your scraps

My Sheri Crafts : Pets

2 Sisters Challenge blog : Summer

Alphabet Challenge : J for "just one word" (sentiment)

Beach Peek-a-boo cards

Tracy over at Craft Junkie Too is up to it again!! She has asked her design team  to create a project with the fabulous  theme:

Summer Fun!

I don't know about you but Summer is taking forever to get here... I am longing for warm days at the Oregon Coast Beaches!! I decided to take inspiration from the beach and make these fun peek-a-boo cards.

The first card is this fun square scallops card. All cuts are from A Child's year. The card base is created by welding two of the scallop squares together to form the 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" card. The hardest part of the card is laying the front of the card.  I wanted the boy's shadow to be cut out of all three of the card front layers.

I sized the boy's shadow to 3" and had to stack all the layers on my Gypsy so I would be sure that all the shadow layers matched when assembled. To finish off the front of the card I added some white gel pen stitches, brown baker's twine, a button and a couple silver plated charms.

Here you can see the main layer of the boy.  He is glued directly to the inside of the card.  I added a Studio G stamp.  The top layer of the outside and inside of the card are from DCWV's Photo stack (it's beach sand).

Here is a close up of the adorable charms. I picked these up at Michael's for $1.99 each. After I took the pictures, I actually took the starfish off of the first card and added it to the beach scene card.

Here is the second beach scene card.  I sized the umbrella to 4 1/4" (the card base is a standard A2). Again, I had to layer all the mats on my Gypsy so that the peek-a-boo shape matched on all layers.

I added some red/white baker's twine, gel pen stitches and a few red buttons and the front was done.

Here you can see my doodles are a mix of dashes and dots.  I stacked two buttons and laced the twine through the buttons before tying the bow on top. I hot glued all the buttons in place.

Here is the inside of the beach scene card. I just grabbed this $1 Happy Birthday stamp from Joann's.

As you can see, you can write most anywhere on the inside of the card, just not over the die-cut.  I think these turned out great.  I've never made a card like this before, but I've never see anything quite like this either.  I am super pleased with the finished cards.  

Jump over to Tracy's blog at CraftJunkietoo.com and 

see what she and her other Crafty Designers have to share.

Challenges: 

Paper Cutz Challenge : Summer or beach

2 Sister's Challenge Blog : Silhouettes