Birthday Dragon

This dragon sitting on a birthday cake is one of Dustin Pike's super cute images, and I thought this guy was perfect for a male themed birthday card.  I'm entering this into a couple of challenges which were against my normal style, one being to avoid flowers (which I found really hard until I convinced myself this was going to be a male card) and the other challenge was to use lots of colours (well I usually colour coordinate everything to a monochrome theme). 

So, since I've just bought myself some lovely new ribbons, I decided to use all the colours of the rainbow, ROYGBIV on this one.  I think it turned out ok, especially as I added some extra orange accents being the opposite on the colour wheel to green (I think!) so I thought they would compliment each other. Perhaps someone will tell me if I'm wrong!  And of course, I also had to use my new nesties, so opted for the square lacey one and raised it up on sticky foam pads from the main card.  The sentiment is my own, and is a freebie on my blog if you're interested if grabbing it (check out freebies in my blog labels).

I've been inspired by the following:

• Craft your Passion - Anything Goes
• Lollipop - Critter
• Really Reasonable Ribbon - Lots of Green
• Creative Card Crew - No Flowers
• Passion for Promarkers - Food & Drink
• Paper Pretties - Ribbon
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Crafty Purple - Fly away with us
• Cute Card - Birthday suitable for a 3yr old
• Moving along with the times - Male theme
• Paperplay - Green
• Allsorts - Card suitable for a teenager
• Ally's - Anything Goes

Happy crafting