Birthday Monkey - Meljen's Design Challenge

Hi ya everyone,
  This week at Melissa of Meljen's Designs has another adorable release:

 I love these little images!  The challenge this week at the Meljen's Designs Challenge blog is "You Are Such an Animal!" - which translates - use animals on your cards!!!  Now what better set to use - each of these can be found right HERE at Whimsy Stamps.  Not too hard now is it.  I need to make birthday cards! So I decided to use an older image that I LOVE!!!  Little sock monkey - isn't he the cutest??  I love him and so I colored him with my Copics and tried to make him look stitched.

I cut him out and placed him to the side.  Next, I took out my Gypsy and used the cartridge Simply Charmed to make this cute hat shaped card.  I used my DCWV Country Christmas stack actually for the papers. 

I popped a number of the layers up from each other to give the card more depth and dimension!  I think that it turned out really well. 

I also cut a piece of the cream paper for the inside which you can sort of see in the photo below.  Lastly, I made a little Happy Birthday tag that I tied on with cream crinkle ribbon!

If you get a chance - head over and join the fun at Meljen's Designs!  Don't forget to hit up the Whimsy Stamps store for all of the new releases!!!