Splashin' Good Time!

Here's another whimsical card I made, this one for a little boy's first birthday celebration. The theme for his party was "Ocean Friends", and happily I found a plethora of cute ocean creatures to cut on the Life's A Beach cartridge to use on my card. I used the Don Juan font cartridge for the wording on the front of the card. I've found this font to be one of the easiest of the Cricut fonts to weld together with Design Studio and like that it remains easy to read after welding.

I decided to use a center pleated card format for this card, and used strips of clear acetate glued into the center pleats to hold my ocean creatures in place. I thought it was sorta neat how the clear plastic strips made the fishies appear to be suspended in air...or in this case, water!

If you look closely, you can see the strips of acetate. The birthday cake comes from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. The happy birthday greeting at the top was cut using a Quickutz cookie cutter die and computer generated greeting is Two Peas Flea Market font.

A detailed tutorial and a link to a video tutorial on making this type of card can be found at Extreme Cards and Papercrafting. Really like that this type of card is quite simple to do and full of so many possibilities!