Birthday Cards using Lawn Fawn's Magic Iris die set

I saw this die set before it was available to order and knew I had to have it. I have many plans for it. Lawn Fawn dies are wonderfully engineered. As someone who has always enjoyed learning how everything works, creating the iris assembly was fascinating to me. To think that this can be done with paper amazes me!

  

The first card was made for my grandson's birthday. His uncle (my other son) has always called him "his bug" so this was an appropriate card from Uncle Burger (his toddler name for his uncle) and me, his Gigi. Click on each below to see the cards in action. 

The day after his birthday is his daddy's birthday, daddy being my first born son. We are going on a cruise soon but of all the stamps and dies I own, I didn't have anything that looked like a cruise ship. I drew a sailboat and used that instead.

In addition to the Magic Iris die set, I used Lawn Fawn's Hey Lady,  A Bug Deal, and Stitched Balloon Frame stamps and/or die sets for the bugs, the magnifying glass, and leaves. The waves and seashells were from a Karen Burniston die set called Tropical Scene.