Birthday Blues

Here's my card for the current challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.  The layout's large panel was the perfect opportunity to use the fun Bokeh stencil from Taylored Expressions. I used a different shade of blue/blue green distress ink for each of the stencil layers, then matted the panel on dark blue cardstock before adhering it to a light blue cardstock panel.  For the sentiment, I stamped the block "happy" on dark blue cardstock and heat embossed the text in lighter blue before cutting the word out with the matching die. I did the same with the smaller "birthday" sentiment, then adhered both to the stenciled panel using foam tape for dimension.  I die cut some stars from silver cardstock using an older TE star die and added them to the lower left and upper right corners of the stenciled panel as accents.  The finished panel was adhered to a blue card base matching the mat underneath the stenciled panel.

Materials Used:
On the Block-Happy and On Repeat-Birthday stamp sets, On Repeat, On the Block-Happy Shadow, and Seeing Stars dies, Bokeh stencil set (Taylored Expressions); Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, and Mermaid Lagoon distress inks (Ranger); Versamark ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); Ocean and Silver cardstock, Glacier embossing powder (Recollections); foam tape