Minion Birthday

Today is my nephew's birthday and I wanted to make his card. I wasn't sure what I wanted so I hit Pinterest looking for some inspiration. Then I remembered how we both laughed when we watched Despicable Me. So, I went in search of Minion cards. I found several but not exactly what I was looking for. So, after browsing for a little bit, my brain started coming up with all kinds of ideas. This is was I finally came up with:

The card base is just a generic plain white card stock. The striped paper is from a DSWV stack called Nana's Kids. The rest of the card was made from scrap, and the sentiment was computer generated.

I made the minion on my Cricut with a variety of basic shapes. You can get the Cricut cut file here.

I chose to cut out one piece at a time and add to the base piece, which is the body, as I went.

First I cut out the body in yellow. Then the white circle and adhered the black circle. I then added the black goggle strap and then the silver goggle and then glued the whole goggle/eye piece in place. Next I cut the overalls and adhered them in place. Next I added the pocket. The black half circle was cut out with the black eye circle. I cut the "teeth" and adhered them and trimmed them to the half circle before adhering the it to the body. The hands and feet were cut next. I went ahead and glued on the feet, but waited to glue on the hands until after I had cut out the cupcake and balloon. Once the cup cake and balloon were cut I dry placed them where I wanted them to be so I could make sure the arms would do what I wanted them to do.

I wanted it to look like the minion was having a difficult time with the cupcake. So, I mounted it so that it was coming off the page at an angle. I did this by cutting a small rectangular piece from the cardboard on the back of one of my stacks of paper and folded it in half. I adhered it to look like it was coming off the page in an angle. You can sort of see what I am talking about in these pictures:

 I popped the balloon off the page with 2 pieces of foam tape and tied bakers twine to both the balloon and the minion's free hand.

I think it's adorable. I hope you do too.

Challenges:
Outlawz: Inspired by Pinterest
My Craft Spot: Clean and Simple
Paper Play Time: Lots of yellow
Created with Love: Anything Goes
Delightful Challenges: Make it Pop

Have a great night everyone!

Miranda