The Pirate Octupus card recipe

Sorry for the delay in this entry. I was out all day at my nephew's 4th birthday party. Yesterday,  I never got the hubster away from the computer long enough to post.

This is the card I made for my nephew. He loves pirates, Batman, Spiderman and all that good stuff. When he saw the card he went "IT'S A PIRATE OCTOPUS!"

It was a tedious card with all the cricut layering, but I already showed you how I made the octopus. Here's what you'll need for the rest of the card.

Pirate Octopus Card Recipe:

1. a plain white cardstock base made from a half sheet of 8.5 x11 cardstock.

1. 1 sheet of plain cadstock that coordinates with your pattered paper. Cut to 5inches by 4inches

1. 1 sheet/piece of pattered cardstock that is cut to 3.75 x 4.75

1. small scrap of blue cut to a circle. I used the porhole and circle from the Create a critter cartridge. It's the page right after the octopus. I cut both pieces at 2 inches each.

1. small pieces of green and brown for the porthole and palm tree. To cut the palm tree, I used the "Life's a Beach cartridge on the "charm" layer. Just hit the "charm" key and then the palm tree. I cut one at 2 inches from brown and one in green. I cut the trunk of the tree out of the brown one and glued it on top of the green one I cut. 

1. I used Ctmh ink in "Chocolate" and a small piece of sponge to ink around all the pieces before gluing down with acid-free/archival safe adhesive. 

1. for the clouds, I just cut tiny pieces out of a scrap of white cardstock.

1. I used a white gel pen to add accents to the porthole and to the octopus's hat, cheeks and eyes.

Hope you like it!