Friday, January 26, 2018

Batty for you!


I used a free Halloween file from Birds's SVGs to make the front of this card - the bat background can be found here. The svg is a square originally, but I stretched it to fit the front of my card and it really didn't distort the images. The sentiment is one I created in Cricut Design Space using one of my favorite free fonts, Milkshake, from Dafont.com. I went with eye-popping pink and purple for a fun Valentine's color scheme.

Speaking of eye-popping, you know that heart-eye emoji that is so popular on social media to express our love of whatever we're looking at? I totally used that idea when creating the inside of the card. 


I never got around to making the awesome Bat Pop-Out card from Bird's SVGs Creak 'n' Shriek collection last Halloween and was just looking for a reason. I'm also a fan of silly puns, so I thought this was a good one to use for Valentine's Day.  

I used some clear Wink of Stella on the wing 'ribs' to add a little contrast and shine. The teeth are cut from white glitter cardstock and really sparkle. I even painted Ms. Batty's toenails bright red with some Nuvo Drops so she's well manicured for the holiday.  


I love the surprise of opening a Valentine's Day card to find a silly bat making heart eyes at you!



Other sentiments that might be fun with this one include:

- Love you the moon and bat
- You drive me batty
- I want to have your rabies!
- I bat you don't know...
- Love bites

And while I was making the bat, I was thinking about the Shark Pop-Out card from the equally fun Jawsome collection, also from Bird's SVGs.  



You could add heart eyes to him too or maybe some sparkly red lipstick to make it a she-shark! Here's a few sentiment ideas for that too:

- You're a fin-tastic Valentine
- Love bites
- You're so cute I could just gobble you up


Thanks for stopping by to check out my batty Valentine's card. I'd love to hear what you think!

4 comments:

  1. The purple glitter you used on Ms.Batty is just devine, I want to cover my whole house in it! Her glitter heart eyes and little shiney red nails are just perfect! I can totally see the shark version with the glittery red lips to match the hearts in the eyes, it's so funny and I love it! Thanks for your lighthearted Valentine's day ideas :)

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  2. Oh your so clever! Great idea giving Ms. Batty those Red toenails and heart eyes. Yes, what a cute surprise when they open the card to see Ms. Batty all decked out in all her glory. Super cute and fun card. Great job again!

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  3. I just love this card. What a great variation for Valentine's Day. Wonderful.

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