CAS-ual Friday's (Shaped Cards) -- CFC #10

Last evening, I was looking at different blogs that I have saved to my favorites and I came across the casual Friday blog. I wanted to see what their challenge was for this week and when I saw that it was for shaped cards, I decided that I wanted to take part in this challenge. I have a Cricut machine and several cartridges; so, I began looking through the cartridges that have shapes which would be good for shaped cards. After spending about 45 minutes, I narrowed down my choice to the Walk in My Garden Cartridge and I picked the turtle for my shaped card.
I cut the pieces for the turtle out of Stampin Up Confetti White paper. The shadow portion of the turtle was inked with Bundled Sage and Old Paper distress ink. The body of the turtle was inked with Tea Dye distress ink and then after I applied heat to to dry the paper, I stamped over the body of the turtle with Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain S5208 with clear Versa Mark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. The turtles shell was inked with Bundled Sage and Forest Moss. Once the ink was dried, I stamped the Design Block Tree S5037 (Hero Arts) with Versa Mark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. After all the pieces were finished. I assembled the card. For the finishing touches, I tied a small tag (that I stamped the word Hi) around the turtle’s neck. The word Hi comes from the Happy Hello stamp set CL231 by Hero Arts.

This card was a lot of fun to make and now I am ready to make more shaped cards. To check out the CAS-ual Friday's blog, please go here. Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate the comments.