Crafty Gal's Monthly Blog Challenge

Hi everyone!  Once a month the blog group I belong to has a challenge and this month's challenge was a tricky one for me.  The challenge was  "Animal Birthdays" and we were to make cards using an animal  character and four shapes of any sort somewhere on the card plus colors red and blue.

My teenage daughter actually came up with this idea of making Cookie Monster and Elmo so they are my animal characters.  The shapes I used can be found within the punch art (circles, half circles, scallop circles, as well as my rectangle sentiment panel).

These are the the punches I used to make Cookie Monster-
Scallop Circle- for the face
1" circle for the mouth (cut circle in half)
3/8" circle punch for the whites of the eyes (circle punch from Itty Bitty Punch Pack)
1/4" circle puch for the black part of the eyes
1/2" circle punch for the cookie and small scallop circle from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack for the bite out of the cookie

These are the punches I used to make Elmo-
Scallop Circle- for the face
1" circle punch for the mouth (cut circle in half)
3/8" circle punch for the whites of the eyes (circle punch from Itty Bitty Punch Pack)
1/4" circle punch for the black part of the eyes
1/2" circle punch for the nose

I used my scallop border punch for the bottom border of the pacific point card stock and I ended up using my white gel pen for the white dots on my real red card stock.  Well, that's about it for my card.  I hope you like it and if you would like to see the other cards from this challenge they can be found here:

Barb

Cardolina

Melina

Jeanette
Lela

Heather

Diane

Athina

Tracie

*card #58 out of 100 cards in 100 days goal

Stamps:  Curly Cute
Card Stock:  White, Black, Real Red, Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake, DSP- Ice Cream Parlor
Ink:  Black Stazon
Supplies:  Punches (See my list above), Scallop Border Punch, SU Chocolate Chip Marker, Tombow Multi Glue, White Gel Pen
Technique: Punch Art

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