Monstrous Birthday Card

My nephew is turning 10 years old in a few days! It's hard to believe he's going to be in the double digits already! I made this card for him with a Halloween theme since his birthday is so close to Halloween.
I started with the cute trio of monsters. These were digis I chose from Gerda Steiner Designs when I won last month's freebie progressive challenge drawing. Gerda very generously allowed me to choose any 3 digis or digi sets from her online collection, and these guys caught my eye. These are my kind of monsters! Not scary, just cute!
I imported the digis to my Silhouette Design Studio software and got busy sizing them and arranging them. They came as 3 little monsters in a row, so I had to erase the octopus-looking creature from the first set and then erase the other 2 monsters from the second set I added to my virtual mat. After that, I just needed to decide where to place the "octopus" behind the other two. I think this arrangement worked out well.
After arranging the monster trio, I got to work on the sentiment. I chose "Scary Halloween" font for the lettering. I made it orange and turned off the cut lines since I wanted to print it and die cut it instead of having each letter cut out individually on my Silhouette. I printed everything out and colored the monsters with Copic and MEXPY markers.
I used a 5X7 inch white card blank for my card base and then trimmed some black cardstock as a mat. I embossed some green cardstock with a 5X7 Cuttlebug folder and trimmed it to fit the black mat. Then I die cut the sentiment using Spellbinders Labels 33 and the image using Spellbinders Decorative Labels 25. I distressed the edges of the die cuts with a little orange ink and adhered the sentiment to the corner using a candy-shaped eyelet and my Crop-A-Dile tool. I adhered the image with foam squares to pop it up. The mat layers were adhered with glue tape.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• Scrappers Delights M, First Saturday of the M Always Anything Goes
• Send a Smile for Kids 2W, 2E (W1) Celebrations cards 4 kids
• Challenge Up Your Life 2W,E1,(W1) monster
• Allsorts W,3E 

WordArt Wednesdays - W,5E , scriptural word art freebie offered each week - #206 - Anything Goes

• Wonderful Wednesdays - W, SIO - Always Anything Goes
• Scrapy Land Challenges -1st and #3rd Wed of Month, Must use a die sold by Scrapy Land - #28 Embossing (heat or dry) PLUS Use Any Brand of Die Scrapy Land Sales

• Paper Shelter Challenge - W,3E, SIO - #224 Trick or Treat

• Inspiration Destination - W, F- #56 Always Anything Goes

• Through The Craft Room Door W, 2E - Always Anything Goes
• Retarte 2W, E3 - #63 - Anything Goes (Week 1)

• Inky Chicks W, 3E, cards & altered items - #59 - Halloween (Week 1)

• Die Cuttin' Divas W, must include a Die-cut - #238 Picture Inspiration*
• Digi Choosday Challenge -W,E2, - #42 - Birthday Celebrations

• Deep Ocean Challenge 2W - #115 - Halloween (Week 1)

• The Paper Girls - 1st & 3rd Mondays, layouts, cards - (Week 1) Halloween

• The Crazy Challenge - 2W, 4E - (Week 2) Orange, Purple & Green

• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - W, 5E - Monster

• Not Just Cards - M, F - Always Anything Goes

• Love to Scrap - 2W, 3E, F, digi or real stamping - (Week 1) Anything Goes
• Eureka Stamps - W, 3E, F - Halloween
• Creative Fingers - W , 3E, No totally digital projects - No.97 - Always Anything Goes (W1 of 2)
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.150 - (W2 of 2) - Orange, Purple or Black
• Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E - No.111 - Halloween
• Morgan's Art World - 2W, E3, SIO (must use digital stamp) - No.10 - (W1 of 2) - Halloween
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 162 - Halloween
• Simply Papercraft - 2W, E3 - No. 16 (W1 of 2) - Always Anything Goes
• The Stamping Boutique - 2W, (2nd & 4th Friday) SIO - No.69 - (W1 of 2) - Halloween

• Get Creative Challenges - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) Halloween Colors

• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes

• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes

• Glitter n Sparkle - W - #159 Halloween Cute or Spooky

• Great Impressions - M, 3E, SIO - Trick or Tree-t
• Lacy Sunshine - 2W, 3E, SIO, digi available - #69 Monster Mash (W2 of 2)

• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - 2W (1st and 3rd Sunday) E3 #20 Anything Goes (W1of 2)

• One Stitch At A Time - 2W, SIO - #248 Anything Goes with Halloween colors (W1 of 2)

• Storyteller - M, SIR -Create a card or project for man or boy (Spellbinders dies)
• Colour Your World with Lucy Sunshine - 2W, E3 Anything Goes (W1 of 2)
• 613 Avenue Create - W - #146 Anything Goes or create your own challenge

Crafty Chicks - W- #269 Happy Halloween

• As You Like it Challenge - 2W, E3- (W1 of 2) Favouite Brights or Pastels (& Why) brights are more eye-catching

• Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W, E5 (W1 of 2) #143 Birthday (+ a sentiment)

Cards 4 Galz -W, E3 - #4 CAS

Craft Rocket Challenges 2W, E3 - Spooky

4 Crafty Girls Creations 2W, E3 Always Anything Goes

Crop Stop Linky Party
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• Hanna & Friends - 2W, cute/stamped/person/animal (W1 of 2) - #233 Halloween

Gerda Steiner Share Your designs

http://gerdasteinerdesigns.com/share-your-work/

Moving along with the Times - 2W, E3 (W2 of 2) Halloween

Sassy Studio Designs - W, SIO: #304 Colour, Black with Orange Green or Purple

• Share Joy Challenge W, C 5 - Sketch + Clean & Simple

Star Stampz Challenge - 2W, E3 SIO - (W1 of 2) Halloween

Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 169 - Anything Goes

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 2W, 3E - No. 102 - (W2 of 2) - Halloween

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - W, 3E – No. 249 - Halloween

Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W1 of 2) Always Anything Goes

• Crafty Catz - W, 3E – #298 - Monsters - spooky or cute

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