Elmo Birthday (easel) card for Jaidyn

Today is my daughter Jaidyn's 2nd birthday party and this is the card I made for her.  My original design had Elmo holding the balloons in the other hand and the balloons were above the top of the card.  But using stickles on them made them too heavy and they just would fall over so I had to re-design my idea.  I think this way looks cute too!  I decided to do an easel card because so far that is my favorite style of card to make but I still have lots more to discover!

Here's a close up of just Elmo:

And here is a close up of the Happy Birthday:

I used these items to create my Elmo easel card:

• Design Studio
• Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge - for Elmo and crayons
• Birthday Cakes Cricut cartridge - for the Happy Birthday
• Recollections pattern paper from my stash
• Cardstock from my stash 
• Martha Stewart flocking powder
• Red and Yellow stickles
• foam squares
• black pen

I am entering this card in this challenge:

• Cardz TV - Challenge #1 - "Just My Style"

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my Elmo Birthday (easel) card for my NOW 2 year old daughter!!!  I will be posting pics of the party later tonight, if all goes well!

Elmo Altered Composition Book

My youngest daughter is turning 2 this month and as one of her gifts I made was an altered composition book.  I plan on using this book to teach her her letters and numbers.  Jaidyn absolutely loves Elmo, her party is going to be Elmo, and I already know she will be getting lots of Elmo gifts.  I had the idea for this composition book months ago and have now had the opportunity to make it.

I am also going to be entering this in these challenges:

• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday #85 - Book Lover - Create a project that has something to do with a book. You can make your own book, include the image of a book on your project, design a bookmark, etc.
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge #25 - stickers, rub-ons, and chipboard - sort thru your stash and dig out those forgotten stickers, rub-ons, and chipboard!  Use any one or more on your project!
• Throwback Thursday Challenge - Kid Friendly -*** This challenge is to use a "Kid Friendly" cartridge, such as any "Disney", "Create a Critter", "Nursery Tales", "A Child's Year" etc.......

I used these items to create this altered composition book:

• Composition book that I've had since July
• Design Studio
• Cricut cartridge Sesame Street and Friends - for the Elmo
• Cricut cartridge George and Basic Shapes -  for the yellow border
•  Martha Stewart flocking powder - that I've had since Michael's clearanced them out 
• Elmo stickers that I bought months ago knowing that I was having an Elmo party for my daughter
• Recollections pattern paper (Bright Lights Big City) that I bought months ago for the purpose of making Elmo invitations, scrapbook pages and whatever else I could think of

Here's an up close look at that adorable little guy we call Elmo:

It's hard to see the flocking but it really does make a HUGE difference than just using paper!  I put the #2 on the book that Elmo is reading because Jaidyn is turning 2!

I hope you enjoyed my Elmo Altered Composition Book and I plan to bring you more Elmo in the very near future!