Baby Shark 1st Birthday Card

I'm sure by now everyone who has a toddler in their life is familiar with the Baby Shark song gone viral by South Korean children's educational entertainment company, Pink Fong. Thought it would be a cute choice for making a birthday card for a special little boy in our family who recently celebrated his first birthday.

I picked up clip art images of Baby Shark with his family and ocean friends from Digital Custom Chris at Etsy and created paper piecing cut files for each using Make the Cut design program.

Decided to use a Bridge Fold or U-fold card style to create an ocean scene for Baby Shark and company.

View from the top shows the strut inside onto which Baby Shark is attached with a piece of clear acetate. I got the chance to play and practice ink blending with Tim Holtz distress inks and makeup foundation brushes again to create the ocean background. Adding random splashes of water droplets onto the cardstock after blending the inks resulted in the fun splotchy water marks.

Added our birthday wish for little Elijah on the backside of the Bridge Fold card.

And finally, here's the card folded flat to fit into an envelope. Had lots of fun putting this card together, while humming the Baby Shark song the whole time of course!