Birthday Dreams - Mojo Monday 222

My resolution for this year is to scrap more often, which I haven't done yet, but I also want to continue using my smaller bits for some great cards.  As luck would have it, my son turns 7 next week.  I don't know where the time has gone, but he is fast becoming a "big kid" instead of my little guy.  So, in planning to make his birthday card, I thought I would make him something a little more grown up looking,  because he likes to think he is such big stuff!  And when I saw the Mojo Monday sketch for this week, I knew it would work perfectly for the stamps I had in mind.  Be sure to go check out the sketch yourself, because this is contest week too.  It also works with the CR84FN45 color challenge - see the graphic at the bottom of my post for the inspiration!

Here's what I came up with - hope he likes it!

As my usual, this is a 5"x7" card.  I started with a kraft card base, and pulled out my Dreamin' paper pack from Close To My Heart.  This is a pretty flowery Fall collection, but since the papers are double-sided, I just chose the more "manly" designs for this card.  I distressed everything for a more masculine feel, including using the Edge Distresser on the blue & brown cardstocks, and ink swiping on everything.  I also spritzed my sentiment block with diluted Chocolate reinker in a spray pen.  I used a square punch to create the notch at the bottom of the "ribbon".

I cut my circles to match my stamps with my Cricut and the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.  Since I knew I was using the limited edition Little Reminder stamp set, I cut the circles to the sizes indicated on the carrier sheet for the stamps.  Then I stamped the outer circle months and the inner dates, adhered the layers together, and circled the appropriate date with my markers.  I stamped my sentiment using a birthday stamp from my stash in Chocolate, and a sentiment from Little Reminder in Pacifica.  After lining up the blocks on my card front, I trimmed down the circle to fit rather than layering on top of it, because of the thickness.

I liked the idea of the flower in the sketch, and I made mine using the Art Philosophy cartridge again.  For a more masculine fell, instead of cutting a flower shape, I cut 4 layers of the 2 different starburst shapes in two colors.  For the center, I used a button shape from the Dreamin' MyStickease pack, adhered it to a round Dimensional Element, and inked the edges.  Finally, I added the line of Opaques Mocha adhesive gems.

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