Monday Challenge: "Shape Cards"

This week's challenge on the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is a to create a "Shaped Card."  I have been looking forward to this week's challenge because I just purchased Wild Card 2.  This is such a cool cartridge guys! It is so much better than any of the other Cricut "card" cartridges.  The designs are dynamic and the card phrases aren't as cliche. 

I selected an octopus looking monster card for my project so that the "shaped card" part was clear.  The caption associated with this image is "Need a hand?"  Not a greeting I'd use, but to each his own.  I skipped the greeting all together and focused on making a colorful, dimensional, playful card that I could actually give to someone.  I thought this design would be great for a kid's birthday.

 
I used pop dots to lift the top layer off of the base to give the card dimension and movement.

I made a few changes to the cartridge design for the face. I thought the original design was cute but too matchy-matchy.  I wanted the card to feel a little more alive and googley eyes did the trick.  My daughter's Jack-o-lantern smile inspired me to turn the mouth cut upside down.  See the resemblance:

I really like the Cricut cartridge Wild Card 2 and am looking forward to making more of its great designs.