Toothless Wants Cake

This one took me a long time to figure out. (Needs to put some effort in to researching paper engineering and pop-up cards) Somehow I never get Toothless’ expressions right! :( 

Made using a lot of cardstock - one sheet of dark blue, one sheet grey, one sheet brown for the backing (of which the edges can be seen in the photos. I used the kirigami eagle card pack shown here - spending a few hours staring at the sample photos and haphazardly putting my own version together - not really a kirigami as I used a ton of adhesive and glue. >.< But oh well. It worked out in the end. His tail design was drawn on in white Pilot Choose pen. 

I WANT A NIGHTFURY PET. 

Flowers and Candles

The birthday cake image is from another stamp I saw a long time ago in a craft book, roughly imitated by hand on plain white paper with a black lineart pen, and coloured in with deep red felt-tips before being cut out.

If you noticed, the front of the card is a layered rectangle of bright pink speckled cardstock attached to another pale pink card on the left side which forms the back of the card. This is a pretty good way to use oddly-sized pieces of leftover cardstock that aren't really big enough to be made a card by themselves. I then layered cream cardstock and bright pink corrugated paper and stiff kraft paper by rotation to create interest, before topping it all off with the cake image. The embellishments are punch-outs of flowers and butterflies.

Hope you liked it! :)