Dino Day Treat

Todays challenge is to make an acetate treat box. I love 3-d items like this but I have the hardest time with them! This was my first time making an acetate box. The hardest part was scoring the acetate!

I didnt want to put candy in my box so I went through my treat drawer and found some dinos. I always keep some of these on hand. They come in a bag of 50 dinos for $1 at Dollar Tree! They also have frogs, lizards, etc. I made this card here for Braydens first day of school but I forgot to give it to him! Bad Mama!LOL! So I made a box to go with it. I love this dino day set from H & M because its a bold stamp set and its perfect for those quick cards you need for kids!

Short post today. Alana has an appt today to see if she needs her tonsils and adnoids taken out. Have a great day!

Prehistoric Birdday

School starts here on Aug 7 so I will need lots of kids birthday cards. The class sends a calendar home each month with all the kids birthdays for the month. My kids love to give cards as much as I do.

Todays limited supply challenge is simple birthdays since I messed up last week with the limited part I did keep my layers limited today. My card base is textured apricot appeal. I used the soft sky polka dots prints paper and used dtp for the edges since I didnt layer the paper. I paper pieced the dino from Treehouse stamps with the polka dot apricot appeal paper. I stamped the sentiment from Pun Fun onto the pti white with pumpkin pie ink. I used dtp for the edges of the dino and the white layer. The only embelishment allowed is ribbon so I used my pumpkin pie grosgrain ribbon to make my stay put bow. I think this will work for a girl or boy card what do you think?

HM sketch and color challenge Dino

Today is Saturday so that means another sketch challenge from Heather and guess what?!?! This week she added a color challenge to it! So of course I had to do both!LOL! I did have to change a couple of things though so lets just say its Shannified!LOL! The color challenge is real red, only orange, yo yo yellow, and so saffron. Well the saffron is where I had the problems. Saffron is actually my least fave yellow and I just couldnt get it to work. I added in wasabi for the trees instead. Sorry Heather! I love the sketch but I had to modify it to manily b/c I forgot the image was a circle image and my dino turned out so cute with his out of the box tail I just couldnt bring myself to do not use him! Its the first time Ive done out of the box cutting since I despise cutting! So since I used a rectangle image instead of a circle I had to move the brad placement. I also added in the sentiment. All the images used on my card are in the Dino day set from H & M. Brayden loves this card! He is a big dino fan and orange is his fave color. He wanted to know if this was his card so I think I will save it for his first day of Kindergarten!

I love how this turned out! Its my first time using this set and I will be using it again very soon! I added a little texture the dino by misting him and colored his spots and toes with yo yo yellow. I outlined him with my copic marker. For my corners I used my red marker and made my dots. Its hard to see in the pic but the real red layer has the footprints stamped tone on tone. Hope you like it as much as I do!

If you want to play along add the keywords HMsc4 for the sketch challenge or HMcc1 for the color challenge. Have a great day!

Prehistoric Pockets

Todays technique challenge was to create a double pocket card. I've made a couple of these before but its been awhile. I wanted to put something in the second pocket other than a tag, etc. I wanted to put something for the recipent to keep. I thought about doing a candy bar, tea bag, etc. I went to go through my stash to see what I had that would work with the pocket and found this bag of dinos. That was all it took!LOL! I just got this super cute dino set from Treehouse stamps.



I pulled out my SU east coast prep dp to make my pocket card. I love using this dp for boy cards. It has great colors! I colored the dinos using prismacolor pencils and blended w/gamsol. The pteradactyl (sp?) is cut out and popped up on the mustard layer with Prehistoric pals stamped in black. I also added double stitched wasabi ribbon under the image layer. I found 2 dinos in my pack that were green and a mustard color so I pulled them out and made a bag topper. I stamped the sentiment and used my SU turquiose marker to make a border. I left my insert with the mustard dino empty for now but I will put him a little note above the dino for him. I know he will love this! He is a big Land Before Time fan!LOL! I think this turned out pretty cute! Here is a pic of the just the pocket card w/out the inserts. Have a great day!