Saturday, May 12, 2012

Puff the Magic Dragon

My mom has always been a fan of Peter, Paul, and Mary, so when I saw that Peter Yarrow was coming to town in May, I knew what to get her for Mother's Day.  I e-mailed the woman in charge about getting tickets and mentioned that they were going to be for Mother's Day.  Imagine my surprise when she e-mailed back inviting us to meet Peter at a restaurant afterwards!

Ever since this came up, I've had the song Puff the Magic Dragon in my head and I wanted to make a card with Puff on it.  Unfortunately, there are not many dragons on the Cricut carts.  There is one on a Paper Dolls cart, but it has no layers.  I decided to use a dinosaur from Create a Critter and attempt to make him look dragon-like.  I cut out a bat from the Holiday Cakes cartridge and cut it in half to make wings.  I cut out some ears and a little spike for the tip of his tail by hand.  I think it worked pretty well, except I'm not completely happy with his face (which I used my Cricut markers on.)  I think she'll get the idea though :)  Because of the musical theme, I ran the white background through the Cuttlebug Allegro folder.  The sentiment was printed from my computer.



This card will be entered in the following challenges:
Peachy Keen Stamps--sketch challenge #17
Cricut Cardz Challenge--#107 "There's no other like my mother."
More than Favors--Wacky Wednesday #70: Mother's Day
Really Reasonable Ribbon--#47 Mother's Day
Dilo en espaƱol--All about moms
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog--#110 Mother's Day
Scrapalicious--Mother's Day
Tuesday Throwdown--#97 Mother's Day

7 comments:

  1. awwwwwwww that was so sweet of you.your card is awesome and mom going to love it

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  2. How fun that you both get to meet Peter Yarrow! Love that dragon and the music behind him is perfect. Thanks for playing in the Tuesday Throwdown.

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  3. Aww, that's too cute! A lovely idea! Thanks so much for joining us at Tuesday Throwdown this week .

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  4. Awesome card-love the embossing and the dragon is super cute:) Thanks for joining us at FCCB!
    Sherrie K
    http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

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  5. it is a awesome card dragon so cute

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  6. Cute, great job with the challenges, thanks for joining CCC!

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  7. What an absolutely darling card!!! Thanks for joining us at Peachy Keen last week..

    Scrappy hugs,
    Amanda :0)

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