Pop 'n Swap Birthday Card

This is the birthday card I made to send a special friend who owns a beautiful calico cat she named "Cheerio". I learned that her kitten was a stray found sleeping inside an empty Cheerios cereal box.

To create a paper pieced version of  Cheerio, I used Eline's Kitten dies from Marianne Design Collectibles and used a pair of scissors to trim the black and brown die cut pieces to try and make a cat with a calico pattern similar to Cheerio.
 

I made a bottom fold card and inside, I followed Karen Burniston's You Tube tutorial to install two of her Pop 'n Swap mechanisms to get Cheerio to pop her head out of the Cheerios cereal box and have the "Happy Birthday" sentiments swing down into view on both sides of the card.

Here's a short video to see the movement of this fun Pop 'N Swap mechanism in action.

All the Cheerios cereal boxes on my card were printed onto white cardstock from images found online. Bows on the gift boxes were die cut from Karen Burniston Big Birthday Charms (green), Cottage Cutz Sweetheart Puppy (red and blue), and Cottage Cutz Holiday Gate With Wreath (pink) die sets.  "Happy Birthday" was cut using a word die from Elizabeth Craft Designs and glued onto the arms of the mechanism.

Then just for fun I decorated a gift card holder with another paper pieced Cheerio inside a Cheerios cereal box.

And finally, here's sweet Cheerio herself showing off the card I made for her Momma!