Today’s card is a blending of three rather different challenges. First off, Lawnscaping is celebrating their second birthday, so their challenge is to create a birthday or celebratory card. The CAS-ual Fridays challenge this week is to create a card that celebrates an accomplishment, and that contains at least one circle. I think getting through another year and celebrating a birthday can be an accomplishment, don’t you? And once I figured which stamps I wanted to use for my card, this week’s Dynamic Duos color challenge lent itself perfectly to creating a little scene.
The cow on today’s card is actually a leftover from something I was working on some time in the last year. She’s been sitting on my desk this whole time and I thought it would be cute to pair her with the sentiment “holy cow!” I wanted her to have a party hat to help show off the birthday theme, but I also toyed with the idea of drawing in a halo to go along with the sentiment. In the end the party hat by itself won out. The circle element for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge is the sun, punched from a scrap of designer paper, with narrow scraps added for rays. The scrap of floral designer paper made a great meadow for the cow.
I continued the birthday theme inside the card. I normally don’t put sentiments inside the cards I make for Operation Write Home. So I put this one up higher than I typically would in a card for my own use, to maximize the amount of writing space for the hero who chooses to send this card to someone.
Challenge recap:
Thanks for stopping by today! And congratulations to Lawnscaping for two fun years of challenges. Keep up the awesome work!
Supplies for this card:
Stamps: Critters on the Farm, Hats Off to You, Jesse’s ABCs (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery and So Saffron Prints designer papers (Stampin’ Up); scrap from Ambrosia 6″ x 6″ paper pad [for the cow] (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); 3/4″ circle punch (Creative Memories)
5 Responses to “dynamic holy cow!”
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cute card..!! love the cow with the hat, and the sentiment is perfect too… Thank you to play along with us at Lawnscaping..
Now this card made me smile!! Love it – so glad you could join us at Dynamic Duos this week :o)
That cow is just so cute with the hat!!! I love it!
Thanks for playing along with Lawnscaping!
This card puts a smile on my face! That cow with the hat is so cute and fun! Thank you so much for playing with us at Lawnscaping challenges 🙂
Love your card. Totally cool! Thanks for joining in the fun with us @ CAS-ual Fridays:)