One Incredible Birthday Card

This was one of my favorite cards to make! My nephew Jude had asked for The Incredibles video game for his birthday and when I saw the logo on the case I knew that I wanted to make a matching card.

I started with a red card base and then pulled out my dies from The Stamps of Life. I cut two ovals of the same size out of black and orange cardstock.

I then took an oval die two sizes smaller and “nested” it in the orange oval. That gave me an orange oval outline.

(Note: The only oval dies I had were dotted oval dies which would have punched dots out along the border of the oval. No problem though - I traced the die and cut out the oval with scissors!)

I then cut the oval in half.

To mimic the look of the orange oval on the logo, I had to "thin it out". I  trimmed down the width by first tracing a line in pencil and then carefully cutting it down.

I adhered the orange oval pieces on top of my black oval as shown in the above picture.

I then took a scrap of yellow card stock and using my paper trimmer cut a rectangle to form the lower case "i". I cut one end of the rectangle at an angle. To do that I simply drew a line with a ruler. 

Then I die cut a yellow circle and a smaller white circle to dot my "i".

I then adhered the "i" to my black and orange oval. The yellow extended over the edge of the oval which I trimmed with a pair of scissors.

Then I adhered the oval to my red card base.

The finished card looked almost professional and it was a fun challenge to take a logo and design a card around it!