Puppy's First Birthday

 My walking buddy's puppy, "Jaz" and our dog, "Polah" are good friends that play together every week. Though I don't think I've ever made a birthday card for a dog before, when "Jaz" turned one last week, I made this quick little Popping Flap style card to go the gift we got for her.

 

I wanted quick and easy so I tried to keep the front of the card simple by adding a large cut out sentiment. I used "Hello Valentica" and "Arial" fonts for the sentiment and created  two shadow layers in Make the Cut design program for it. I chose to use pearlescent cardstock to cut the letters and glitter cardstock for the bottom shadow layer to add sparkle. The cupcake was cut using MFT's "Cupcake and Sprinkles" die and blinged with Stickles glitter glue. The white background panel was dry embossed with a Sizzix "Three Dots" embossing folder.

This Popping Flap style card is always a favorite when I need a quick and easy pop up card. I used the video tutorial by BeeHappiLeaCraftin for the basic instructions to construct the mechanism for this card.

Since "Jaz" and "Polah" are both Maltese, I used Marianne Designs "Eline's Puppy" dies to create the two paper pieced pups for the pop up flap mechanism, trimming the flap close to the edges of pups. The oversized sentiment inside was created similar to the one on the front with pearlescent and glitter cardstock.

Here's a photo of the two little rascals, "Jaz" (on the left) and "Polah". They share the same dad but are from different litters, so I guess that makes them "half sisters"?