Lego-inspired birthday card

I've fallen a little behind on my blog posting during the past week because I was busy trying to finish the pack of birthday cards I gave to my grandma for Mother's Day. I was stamping like mad early yesterday morning, and I managed to get all the cards made, photographed and packaged just a couple of hours before our Mother's Day dinner. Whew. It was a little stressful at the end, but now I have several posts' worth of cards to share with you! I'll start with a fun kids birthday card with a Lego theme.

Supplies (all Stampin' Up!)^®:
Stamps: Big Bold Birthday, Birthday Wish, It's Your Birthday
Card stock: Confetti White, Pacific Point, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Glorious Green
Ink: Pacific Point, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Glorious Green
Accessories: Mono Multi liquid glue, Dimensionals

This card was something of a happy accident. I was trying to create some masculine birthday cards using an image from the Big Bold Birthday  stamp set (see photo at right). I had stamped and cut out the image in several different colors and was playing around with a layout when I realized that if I colored in the circles and then cut the image apart, the pieces would look like Legos.

I stamped the image four times: once each on Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Glorious Green and Pacific Point card stock (using the coordinating ink). I colored the circles and cut the images into different sized blocks. I considered lining up the pieces to create a border around the card edges or to form an image or word. But to me Legos are the most fun when they're spread out on a table or all mixed together in a bucket. That's when they are full of possibilities only limited by your imagination. So in the end I decided to have a few groups of randomly scattered Legos on the card front.

I had some pieces left over, so I added a border along the bottom of the inside of the card. (I think I may have had to cut out a few more blocks to finish the border.)

If you want to get more elaborate with your Lego card, you could recreate the green Lego base plate. Start with a Glorious Green card base and use the Stamp-a-a-jig tool to cover the card front with stamped circles. Then adhere your stamped Legos to the card front so they look like they're on the base plate.

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