welcome to *MONSTA*piece theatre

how funny & adorable is that MONSTA?! i fell in love with him (or her?) at christmas time when designer digitals was having discounts every day, he's from a set of digital stamps by jesse edwards... (he has brothers too--or perhaps sisters? it's hard to tell!) ...i digitally paper pieced him and added some birthday greetings in random bursts at various font sizes to participate in prompt #25 at the creative type, which is to incorporate type in your embellishments. (i've incorporated some of my type CORPOREALLY...do i get extra points for that??!)

i also used kazan's sketch #45


but i will forgive you for not believing me, since it is quite clearly round. i was completely inspired by the sketch, however; that's what made me cut out around the funky pointy shape instead of making a plain old rectangular card! i printed the monsta's body & cupcake base on photo paper, the mouth, teeth, eyes & cupcake icing on plain index stock and the background shape (with more bursts of text) on some grungy acid green paper, then cut everything out and popped the different layers on foam tape for added dimension. i'm pretty sure the birthday dude will not receive two of *THESE*!!! ♥


(finished card measures 8.5 x 8". digital materials: monstrous stamps by jesse edwards & pop icon shape by katie pertiet, both from designer digitals; papers: bennett's hammock by roben-marie smith & cherry sugar sunshine by girl friday, both from digichick; city streets by gretchen thomas & notebook paperpack by katie pertiet, both from designer digitals; cupcake dingbat from pea delilah's doodle font; text fonts: cry kitty, saco de pao, broken 15... all from dafont; scrappy materials: cardstock: basic grey, prima, core'dinations & plain white from staples plus staples' glossy photo paper; epoxy sticker: ki memories; pen: zig; ink: versamark; adhesives: tombow mono runner & 3m foam tape)