We Make a Great PEAR card

This is my second card for the shaped card challenge at Simply Less is Moore.  I am having a blast with this challenge!  So here's my card:

This will be an anniversary card. The inside sentiment says ....We make a great "PEAR"  Happy Anniversary!  I started with a piece of  folded greenish-yellow cardstock.  Then while looking at a pear from my fruit bowl, I simply cut the pear shapes out with a pair of scissors.  I cut a branch from dark brown cardstock, embossed it a wood grain texture and adhered it to the card base. I cut around the branch with scissors and used an Xacto to trim between the pears.  I cut the leaves from patterned paper and adhered them to the card along with a few stems that I cut from brown cardstock.  To make cardstock look more "pear-like" I chalked it with green and red chalk.  I added a white pear shaped piece of cardstock that is slightly smaller than the card inside and printed the sentiment on it.

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You're Fintastic Shaped Card

I am so excited about this challenge.  What fun!  The challenge at  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com was to make a Shaped Card!  Yes, not your average rectangle or square but a shaped card. I knew immediately  what I wanted to do. I created a FISH SHAPED card.:

This card was pretty simple to make.  I simply folded a piece of cardstock, cut out a fish shape and embossed it with my Fiskar's template.  I used my computer to print the words "You're Fintastic" onto a piece of vellum, ran it through my Xyron and adhered it to the base.  I added a bit of colored pencil around the edges of the bubbles to add definition and attached a black brad for an eye.  I cut a smaller version of the fish from white cardstock to use inside the card as a writing space.

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