Posted by Spellbinders Team
on January 22, 2024
Hello Friends! It´s Raquel here again sharing some colorful fun ideas with the super adorable Monster Birthday Collection.
The moment I saw these critters I couldn’t help but smile and think of fun and playful scenes with lots of color. These projects can be used for birthday celebrations or just for a fun surprise card for both children and adults. Some of these little whimsy and fun creatures even dance with its moving legs so there is also that additional surprise.
- Die cut the body piece of the dinosaur out of complementary colored cardstock. I used light green and light peach.
- Die cut the back legs and the back plate from a darker-colored cardstock. I looked through my stash and picked shades that coordinated with the light green and light peach I chose for the body and front legs.
- Die cut the Flower Crown Base, Flowers, Flower Center, and Sprigs using your favorite colored cardstock.
- Glue the back legs and the back plate to the body and adhere the flowers to the Flower Crown Base. Adhere some gems to the center of the flowers.
- Arrange the springs onto your work surface and use the flower crown base as a reference. Once you have the sprigs arranged, glue them to the flower crown base.
- For the eye: I glued a small piece of white cardstock under the eye, that way I just had to die cut the eye out of black cardstock and adhered the black part of the eye onto this piece and the eyelash onto the left-hand side of the eye.
- Use several geometric dies for your background and create layers. I used the Flutted classics rectangles, the Essential Stylish Ovals, and the Make a wish labels from different colored cardstock.
- Finally, glue the dinosaurs onto your front layer and add some greenery and some flowers to create some interest. I used the Mini Blooms and Sprigs dies and the Petite Floral Potpourri to cut out some leaves out of colored cardstock.
- Choose a sentiment from the Monster Birthday Sentiments stamp set and place it on the center of your card.
- TIP: Choose your color scheme before you start die-cutting. This will save you time. Do not overthink it too much and limit your palette to two or three shades and then pick similar colored cardstock, this will give you a cohesive look.
- Die cut seven numbers, the Curved Balloon String of the Birthday Balloons Etched Dies, the Balloon Knot out of different colored cardstock.
- Use a 3D embossing folder as your front panel to add some extra texture. I used the Floating Balloons 3D embossing folder.
- Adhere your 3D embossed panel onto another rectangle die (I love to have different layers) For this project I used the Postage Edge Rectangles.
- Glue your Balloon knots and strings to your balloons and arrange them onto your embossed background creating some movement. I used seven balloons but three or five will look amazing.
- As a final touch, you can add extra elements to your balloons. I choose flowers from the Mini Blooms and Sprigs dies.
- Choose a sentiment from the Monster Birthday Sentiments stamp set and place it on the center of your card.
- TIP: Choose your favorite color combo for your numbers and a lighter or darker shade for the balloons string and knots. You can even mix and match colors between balloons, strings and knots.
- Die cut the body of the Dancin’ Birthday Monster five times using colored cardstock.
- Die cut the Dancing monster, arms, horns, Tuft hair, hat base, and Monster Body tummy using darker colored cardstock.
- Ink blend your front panel with the same colors that you used for your Monster body and splatter some ink on top.
- Mix and match all these pieces and assemble the monsters around this inked front panel.
- Die cut all the parts of the eyes out of white cardstock and color the large and small iris parts with an alcohol marker.
- Assemble all the eyes depending on the design you want. I created one-eyed monsters, two-eyed monsters, and monsters with horn eyes.
- Choose a sentiment from the Monster Birthday Sentiments stamp set and place it on the center of your card.
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