Crabby Thank You

Welcome to my blog!  Please enjoy this affiliate free space!  Today I'm going to show you how to make an easy and cute thank you card.  It's very much like my Crabby get well card with a little different twist.  I actually designed this card first and adjusted it to make my crabby get well card.

Well, my youngest daughter turned four a few weeks ago, and I don't know how that happened!!!  But it did so I needed to make thank you cards for all her birthday guests.  We had a Moana themed party so  I needed something that would work with that.  Since coconuts are so important in that movie my mind immediately went to the palm trees die set that came out with the newest Lawn Fawn release.

So I picked a nice blue for the background and cut pieces to size for my cards.  Next I used my small stitched circle stackables.  I pulled out the biggest circle and used my cuddlebug to cut out half as many as I needed to make my islands.  Then I sliced them in half with my fiskars trimmer.

Next I pulled the clouds from plane and simple, stamped them with my memento ink onto American crafts cardstock, stamped thanks from the same set in the center of the largest cloud and used my shamie to wipe off my stamps.  

Then I used my Zig real brush markers to color in the edges of my clouds.  

After that the fun began!  I picked out cardstock colors for my crab, palm trees and coconuts.  I got out my cuddlebug plates and stacked A plate, B plate, magnetic plate, paper, dies and topped it with a B plate and ran it through.  Since I was doing several cards this helped use the cuddlebug most efficiently.

When that was done I was ready to assemble my card.  I started by using my tombo liquid adhesive to glue the tops of the palm trees to the bottoms.  Then I used miracle tape to attach my islands to the blue background.  When I was done with that I attached my palm trees and crabs with tombo liquid adhesive.  My new trick when attacking tings flat to my card is to leave parts of the object unattached to add dimension.    This was extra important today because my crabs were going to juggle....wait for it....coconuts!!!!!  RIGHT!!!!!!

 

So I attached pop dots to my coconuts taking care to make sure that the textured part of the coconuts was going to show.  Once attached, I added the coconuts to the card and bent my crab's claws up so it looked to be actively juggling the coconuts.  

Next I attached pop dots to the clouds and added them to the card.  And what I had was one of the cutest thank you cards I have ever made!!!  Thanks for coming to the blog today!  Hope you enjoyed this tutorial!  Below you will find a supply list and a plug for my favorite local scrapbook store.  You can find most of the supplies I used for this card and many other unique items that the big box stores don't carry.   

 
Supply List
A2 card bases and envelopes
Miracle tape
Tombo Aqua liquid glue
Pop dots
American Crafts cardstock white (smooth), dark brown, red, light green, dark green and dark blue.
Bazzil cardstock craft
Memento Ink
Acrylic stamp block
Cuddlebug with plates A, B, B, and magnetic plate
Fiskars trimmer

Lawn Fawn products:
Shammie
Palm tree die
Small stitched circle stackables
Plane and simple stamp and die set

I am not an affiliate of my local scrapbook store but I love it!  It
gives me my sanity and I consider it my second home!  So I have to put
in a plug for my favorite scrapbook store!  As we all know many of our
local scrapbook stores are an endangered species.  So if you happen to
be in town or want to order online please do!  There are so many unique
products available.  I would truly appreciate you supporting my cropping
haven!