Terry Lynn Bright, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Today’s card features the Stampin’ Up! Happy Birthday To You stamp set and matching Birthday Dies available during Sale-a-bration. This set is so versatile: birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, or using the flower, leaf and berry dies on their own to create a wreath – the ideas abound! Let’s see…

This card has such visual appeal in person… all the layers make it pop. And here’s how I did it…

• On Shimmer Paper, stamp the cake image twice with Stazon Jet Black ink. The second image really only needs to be the flowers as that will be diecut.
• With your aqua painter and Flirty Flamingo, color the flower petals on both stamped images. Why you ask? Because you do not want a blank image behind the flowers. 
• With your aqua painter, color the leaves first with Mint Macaron, then darken areas with Garden Green.
• Go ahead and color the cake stand at this point, with the rim being the darker portion. Do you remember our mothers or grandmothers green glass (also pink glass)? That’s what this cake stand reminds me.
• Using your aqua painter color the berries with Poppy Parade. Here’s what it looks like before putting the images together.

Now it is time to diecut your various pieces.

• Diecut the full cake first then your additional flowers.
• While you’re at it, diecut the leaf image twice out of Garden Green.
• Diecut the berries twice out of Shimmer paper.
• Diecut the second largest circle from the Layering Circles framelits, out of vellum.

Layer your pieces. This is a matter of preference in placement. I used not only glue dots, but also snail and dimensionals. Some pieces went behind the vellum and some went on top of the vellum but behind the cake. Here’s how I put it together…

• Vellum on dimensionals
• Cake on dimensionals
• Flowers on dimensionals

Paper layers:

• Card base is Soft Sea Foam 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, scored at 4 1/4″
• Mint Macaron 4 1/8″ x 5 1/4″
• Garden Lane DSP 3 7/8″x 5″
• Final layer is the vellum, cake and diecuts.

The inside is super simple and easy…

• Stamp the sentiment from Happy Birthday To You in Stazon Jet Black ink on a Whisper White 4″ x 5 1/4″.
• With glue dots add the remainder of the berry and leaf diecuts. I put a glue dot under the berry diecut, then under two of the Garden Green leaves, tucked the stem of the leaves under the berries and covered the glue dot under the berrries.
• Adhere the Whisper White to the card base using liquid glue.

Remember your envelope…

• Find a coordinating piece of Garden Lane DSP 2 1/4″ x 6″, adhere to the envelope flap with liquid glue and trim.
• Stamp the envelope front in Garden Green ink.

YAY! Your card is complete and ready to send to a favorite person. This one is going to a S-I-L whose birthday is right around the corner.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed today’s project and that you try your hand at watercoloring.

May you have a beautiful day.

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