Lily-by-Gilly

My neighbour’s little boy had his 4th birthday a few weeks ago, so I made this fun dinosaur punch art card for him.  I used two of the new in-colours from Stampin’ Up – baked brown sugar and pistachio pudding – the colours sound so delicious …

Different sizes of oval framelits were used to cut shapes from pistachio pudding cardstock. I sponged the edges in matching ink and then used the dauber to sponge circles onto his back, before popping him up on dimensionals onto the baked brown sugar base card …

The birthday greeting was stamped from the label love stamp set, punched out with the co-ordinating artisan punch, and popped onto the paper rosette, made from some colourful quatrefancy designer series paper.  Apparently, the birthday boy loved it!      

I had loads of fun making Joel a dinosaur cake too …

… the rocks and boulders were delicious – the icing was caramel flavoured – yum.

My husband said I’d made the dinosaur look a little too cute – it was obviously not scary enough for the boys – and it was his idea to add teeth and claws … I still think he looked cute though (the dinosaur, not my husband). 

I had a little help with the cake – my daughter helped with the red plates for the back, and I had artistic direction from my husband (teeth and claws) – he made the dinosaur eggs too … even painted the spots himself (I new I’d make a crafter out of him one day!)

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Here’s what I used to make today’s card – all supplies from Stampin’ Up!:

cardstock: baked brown sugar, pistachio pudding, basic black, whisper white; stamp sets: label love; inks: baked brown sugar, pistachio pudding, early espresso; punches: artisan label; several sizes of circles, corner rounder; accessories: quatrefancy dsp, stampin’ dimensionals, sponge daubers, simply scored scoreboard, oval framelits, bigshot, tombow adhesive.

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