Happy Birthday to Isaiah

The Challenge:
I decided to enter Imaginisce's card challenge and make a birthday card for my soon to be 4 year old nephew. Here is the final result:

I found out Isaiah really likes mustaches after watching Doogal, the movie.

Isn't he adorable? The challenge's guidelines are as follows:

Use Melinda's sketch,
and incorporate the following game plan into your completed card using at least 75% Imaginisce products:

1. Three Patterned Papers

2. Three Colors

3. Three Embellishments

Here is the sketch by Melinda Spinks:

What you can't tell thus far is that there is a spinning wheel that slightly protrudes from the card.

When you turn it, the face changes but the accessories stay the same. Here are the other choices:

The Process

I wanted to use Imaginisce's Animal Crackers line because I won it and didn't want it to sit by the wayside. I wasn't sure how to use a circus themed line so I wanted to challenge myself to try. I looked through the contents of the collection, was mesmerized by the giant mustache die cut, and used that as the inspiration point. It also reminded me of the mustache battles on Jimmy Fallon, but that is another story.


                             

I decided to put the mustache on Isaiah, but why stop there? I decided to put it on his whole family. You can spin the wheel to your heart's content. I made a template in QuarkXpress for the wheel and imported their faces into the three even spaced ovals. Now they looked like eggheads. I cut a hole in the outside card so the faces lined up and had the koala's accessories adhered around the hole. Here is the plain paper prototype and inside of the card. 

My card demystified.

I hope my family doesn't mind me posting my creations of them on the internet. I was thinking it was like dating Taylor Swift. If you date her and break up, she'll write the experience into her songs. If you know me, you might just end up on my blog.