GINORMOUS Hello Kitty Birthday Card!!

 Hi everyone!

Today I have another birthday card to share.  This one has a funny back story to it.  When I started the Birthday Card Club, I got a question "What size is an A5 card?"  I thought, hmmmm... this is an odd question to ask me, I don't think I have ever made an A5 or mentioned it before.  But I looked it up to provide an answer.  The first couple websites that I saw, showed A5 as something ridiculous like 18" x 27" or something ODD like that.  Then another website showed something just a couple inches different from that.  So, it took me a bit, but I finally found the correct A5 measurements. 

Then I got another question.  "What is A5 size?"  And this time I asked, why are you asking me that?  She told me that my email that went out to everyone had that we needed to make at least an A5 sized card.  WHAAAAAT!??!  No!!  I meant to say A2!  So then I freaked out, and sent a "correction" email to everyone saying that I meant to type A2.  Well, I went back and checked my original email, and it DID say A2, so I thought, "How could it have been changed by just sending it out?!  How could email just change what I typed?"  Well, it didn't.!  LOL!  It tuns out that she read the email quickly, and then called her best friend to ask what A5 was (the other person who emailed me.)  So it wasn't my error in an email! WHEW! 

Well, this gal is awesome, and has such a fun personality, so I was joking with her best friend that I was going to send her a HUGE card as a joke for her birthday card.  And her friend egged me on!!  So I did it!  Here is my card:

I could barely get it all in frame!  It is 16" wide by 24" tall!  yes, HUGE!!!   It started out as an actual greeting card (that I can't remember who made it) but around the big holidays, like Christmas and Valentine's Day they have these giant cards in the greeting card aisle.  This one was a Valentine's Day card, I will show it:

Yeah, it was a Valentine's Day lovey card.  So I covered it up to make it a Birthday Card!!  I used the DCWV 12" x 24" Adhesive backed Patterned stack. 

Here is the Hello Kitty that I cut out on my Cricut:

Yep, that's a quarter by her ear, just so you can see how BIG she is!!  This actual cut is different, I tweaked it with my Gypsy to make the kitty as big as the balloons.  Because the actual cut, she is pretty well proportioned to how it would be in real life.  (I guess.)  But I wanted her bigger, since the card itself is so big.  So I have the kitty and the balloon cut to be about 11" each. 

Here is a look at the inside of the card:

I had to cover the inside as well.  (It had some lovey dovey sentiment like "Be my sugar" or something like that. lol!)  So I used some Hello Kitty paper to do a border on the side, then a piece of 12" x 24" white cardstock (also DCWV) and then cut out my sentiment using MAMBI Sizzix font dies called "Night & Day."

Here is a close-up of the sentiment:

 I had to add a silly sentiment that represented the whole A5 thing!  I hope she likes my card, and I hope she gets a good laugh out of it!  I have always been one to tease, so I love it when I find friends who can laugh easily!  :) 
I hope you have a very happy birthday Penny!!! 

 A video will be up on my YT channel about this card as well.  Thanks for stopping by!!




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