Teen Boy Birthday Card

I often struggle to make a birthday card for the teen boys in my life.  But, I have the perfect idea if you need one.  I used a fabulous cut from the Father's Day Cricut cartridge for a video game controller.  The two phrases are also from Cricut, the birthday boy is from Cricut CTMH Artiste and the happy is from Cricut CTMH Artbooking. 

#Artistry&Artiste Mash Up!

I just made my first card with the new Artistry Cricut Cartridge by CTMH and mixed it up with a card cut from the Artiste Cricut Cartridge (also CTMH).  I love the swing cards (Artiste) and anything CTMH or Cricut!  The cake and present are from Artistry.  So here is a birthday card using the coordinating CTMH stamp set Framed (S1508) and some dew drops from The Robin's Nest for the candles on the cake! The square gems may be from Oriental Trading.

To make the inside "Happy Birthday" banner just stamp on the card stock.   Trim down to a length of 4" inches, clip the notch, distress edges and attach inside the card.  The "Have a day..." is also a CTMH stamp set that coordinates with one of their Cricut Cartridges, but for some reason, I have no label on this set. 

FCCB Challenge 195

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge with FCCB!

Challenge #95 Mix and Match

Use 3 different patterns of paper

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To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.  To join this weeks challenge visit Fantabulous Cricut Challenge blog here. 

Here are my tips for using three or more patterned papers in a project:

1)  Use papers from the same collection.  For this page I used Bo-Bunny's Teen Chic paper line.

2)  If you use paper from more than one manufacturer, use a single patterned paper for the color scheme and chose papers with a matching color scheme.

3)  Use simple patterns such as stripes, dots and checks, or an all over pattern such as the green pattern in frame on this page. 

4)  Use smaller scale patterns and add larger scales coordinating patterns as accents.  See how I fussy cut the flowers from the Bo-Bunny patterned paper and made my own embellishments? 

5)  Add a neutral.  Bo-Bunny already had black (a neutral) in the stripe, and I added some more to help pull the patterned papers together.

Supplies

Cricut Fontopia Cartridge (Black Frame)

Cricut Ashlyn's Alphabet Cartridge (watermelon)

Cricut Close To My Heart Artiste Cartridge (rolled roses)

Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet (Pink flower with red embellished center)

Cricut George Cartridge (Pink circle)

Art Glitter Black Glitter

Art Glitter Dries Clear Adhesive

Art Glitter Ultra fine Glue tip

Bo-Bunny Teen Chic papers

Zva Creative (small green rhinestones)

Simply Elegant Round Embellishment (center of pink flower)

Creative Memories leaf punch

Want2Scrap pearls

MonAmiGabby green pearl button

Prima leaves

Bazzill Basics Paper flower (black flower)

American Crafts black velvet ribbon
Pink felt
Green felt