This is my very first AI project - isn't it obvious? Ha!

Anyway, I wanted to give this a  go because I would like to learn how to create a business card file on AI for letterpress printing. Here I created my cat's birthday invitation. I hope you see that there's a cat's nose, whiskers, and the date arched downwards to create the semblance of a cat's mouth. The idea is there, but the execution is horrible because I don't know how to use the pen tool properly (yet).

Here are some photos of my project elements but without the info hierarchy (not needed), and without the inspiration research (I came up with the idea for the "cat face").