Dragon Crashing Over Birthday Cake Birthday Card

Happy Saturday Crafters,

Ever since I bought the Jaded Blossom Dragon Kisses Stamp set I've been wanting to make a birthday card using a dragon with a birthday cake. 

As I was browsing thru my SVG data base to find an image that I wanted to use I couldn't find one that was exactly what I had in my mind so I decided to combine two different KaDoodle Bug Designs files to create the image I wanted.  I used KBD Shoptastic Cuties-Birthday Cake and weird as it may sound I also used the KBD Cutie KaToodles Tombstone Dragon. 

I wanted the dragon to look like he was looking over the cake to the birthday person and saying the sentiment I used. 

I also paper pieced and print and cut these files to show that you can combine files either way.  You just need to figure out where you're going to fussy cut afterwards and be patient.

While I was working on putting together the print and cut files and paper piecing the dragon together I added Nuvo Crystal Drops to the icing on the paper pieced cake. I took some little accents I bought from the dollar store awhile ago and added them to the icing.  These little accents are in tiny glass files and are supposed to be for nail decoration.  LOL

 In hind sight I wish I would've added the Nuvo Crystal Drops after I put a majority of the cake together.     

In this picture you'll see that I used one of my embossing folders to put the icing on so I could set it aside to dry. 

Here it is the cake before I combined it with the dragons.

First up are pictures of the paper pieced Shoptastic Cutie Birthday Cake combined with the dragon from the Cutie KaToodles Tombstone Dragon.

I just love how he looks popping over the cake like he's crashing through the candles to say "Need help lighting all these candles?"

Here he is with the white icing. 

Here's the print and cut files combined together.  

I printed both out separately  and then cut the tombstone away from the dragon to put him behind the cake and have his arms in front of the cake.  

Here's a close up of the two images together. 

Card Recipe:

• Card design is Mojo Monday 453 from scrappydew.com
• KaDoodle Bug Designs Shoptastic Cuties-Birthday Cake
• Icing on paper pieced cakes were decorated with Nuvo Crystal Drops - Caribbean Ocean & White
• KaDoodle Bug Designs Cutie KaToodles Tombstone Dragon
• Sentiment from Jaded Blossom Dragon Kisses stamp set

• Gelly roll pen - White & Metallic Purple for accents
• Wink of Stella Brush Pen GL Yellow 050 for the candle flames

Thanks for stopping by.

I hope I inspired you to try combing files to make something new.

Happy Crafting

TTFN,

Debby

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Easter Project

Happy Easter Crafters

Today I would like to share with you some Easter gifts I made for my great niece and niece and nephews.   

I purchased an adorable stripped box with a ribbon handle from the dollar section at Target knowing I wanted to decorate the front and fill it with goodies for my great niece.   When trying to decide what image to decorate it with I decided not to go with the standard easter bunny, chick or lamb when I saw the adorable PTC Easter Dragons file by KaDoodle Bug Designs.   

For the front of this box/basket I used the standing dragon from the KBD PTC Easter Dragon file.  

Here is a picture of the finished project.

You can't see it but I used Wink of Stella Brush pen on the bows to add some sparkle to it and my Gelly Roll pens for accents.  I also used some Copic markers to ink to cover up the white edges because they were printed on white paper.

For my older niece, nephews and cousin I used some purple boxes I purchased from the  Pick Your Plum website about a month ago and also decorated them with the adorable PTC Easter Dragon file from KBD.

For my niece I put the larger standing dragon on the front of hers, for my nephews I used the sitting dragon and for my cousin I used the smaller standing dragon.

Wish I would've taken a picture of the side view so you could see how cute they look with all the pieces popped up with dimensional squares or tape.  I have a couple more projects that I'll be posting later that I'll make sure to get the side view of them. :)

Card Recipe:

• KaDoodle Bug Designs PTC Easter Dragon file.
• Accents with white Gelly Roll pen and the Fl.Pink and Blue Gelly Roll pens from the Moonlight set.

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed seeing my Easter gifts even though they're not the best Easter gifts given because no one can top the gift that Christ gave to us. 

I enjoy and cherish all comments.

Happy Crafting!

TTFN,

Debby