But then I remembered the invitation we received had a sealife theme with a crab and decided to stash the monkey card away and make a new card with the crab from the Summer Mini hostess set, It's a Thought. If you've seen this set, you might be wondering how a frowning crab with the saying "sorry i was crabby" could be useful on a birthday card. Well, I used the marker to stamp technique to ink just his body (not his frown or the words). Then I drew in a smile and cut him out. Here's the card I came up with:
I also used the Tropical Party and Fabulous Phrases stamp sets. Oh, yeah... and the Calendar Alphabet set to spell Eli's name. Cute, huh!
Well, about 30 minutes before the party, I was putting the gift in a gift bag and got to thinking... this bag looks pretty boring. It needs something! So I came up with this cool crab tag:
The crab tag was made up of a lot of punches and attached to a scallop circle die. His name was stamped using Just Perfect Alphabet set. What do you think? I think it turned out super cute!
Okay, so fast-foward to a my workshop last week. Eli's mom, Kristina, came to the party and was browsing my sample table. When she came across the monkey card, she picked it up and just had to say how cute it was! I laughed and told her how that was the original card I made for Eli. She told me that she had been going back and forth between the crab theme and a monkey theme. How funny is that?!
Happy Stampin!
Brenda
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