Little Monkies

I had to make 3 kid's birthday cards this weekend and I was having trouble getting creative so this is a very simple layout and I just made 2 of the same! The third one I did do different as he is a big boy (turning 5 years old!) See tomorrows post...
Anyways, back to these cards....I used the Sock Monkey set which I find perfect for kid's cards. I stamped it onto the circle (cut with bigshot) in basic black, then again in black on the DSP (that is choc. chip DSP). I cut out the DSP image and paper pieced the monkey. Added the birthday hat and chipboard which I inked with craft bashful blue ink which I added some dazzling diamonds to, as well as the pompom on the hat. Mounted the circle onto the scallop circle and then glued that with dimensionals to pop it up to the real red base. On the inside I put a piece of whisper white CS and stamped "celebrate" from the Warm Words set.

Large Scallop circle

I was dying to try my new sizzix die (the Large scallop circle) to make a scallop shaped card. So I cut out the card and then didn't know what to do with it! It was late last night and I lost my Mojo, but in the end I was pleased with how it turned out. I used the Tree Trimmings stamp set and stamped it on the Holiday Lounge DSP in versamark....I then embossed the images and cut them out, then popped them up with dimensionals. Well, I wasn't too happy with how it looked and was trying to decide what it needed. In the end I used my paper piercer and added some gold elastic cord and made it a tag....perfect for a holiday bottle of wine!!

This is why...

I LOVE my Bigshot!! I was preparing for my Stamp-a-Stack class and this literally took me 5 mins. to prepare. There are 30 of each circle and 30 of each scallop circle!