Blue Bold Birthday

When I saw the sketch for today's challenge on SCS, I immediately thought of the candle images from Big Birthday Candle. They were a perfect fit for the main image panel on the sketch.

I stamped the candles on scraps of red designer papers, then trimmed around them. I attached them to the white panel, which I had already stamped with the candle flames and embellished with some Dazzling Diamonds.

I used yet another pattern of red designer paper for the strip along the left side of the card. I matted this on a piece of Baja Breeze cardstock. Then I used a sewing machine to make a zig zag line across three narrow scraps of Baja Breeze cardstock to layer across the cardfront.

Initially, I didn't have the extra layers of Baja Breeze and Pacific Point. I had just set everything on a Pacific Point cardfront. It looked a little plain to me, so first I tried setting the images over the Pacific Point cardfront stamped with the Dotted background. That was way too busy, so I ended up using layers of solid cardstock instead.

For the sentiment, I combined two of the words from the Occasions Collection hostess set. This is such a versatile set! There's a sentiment for almost any event and the font is nice and clean. I think this set will fit into a lot of my designs. I punched them out with a circle punch and attached the panel to the cardfront with dimensionals. I think this might make a nice birthday card for a child.

Materials Used (all from Stampin' Up!):

Big Birthday Candle and Occasions Collection stamp sets, Pacific Point, Barely Banana, So Saffron, and Basic Black Classic inks, Pacific Point, Real Red, Baja Breeze, and Whisper White cardstock, Real Red Prints Series and Patterns designer series papers, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, silver brad, Dazzling Diamonds, dimensionals; sewing machine