Today I'm sharing my design team card for our new challenge over at As you See It where it's time for a fun recipe challenge chosen by Jan:
I decided that I could find solutions to much of Jan's recipe in the Birthday Celebration suite, so I used that as my starting point. I used the layout over at Sketch Saturday and decided to create a special birthday card that was definitely inspired by that fabulous birthday cake in the Hand Stamped Sentiments inspo photo - take a look:
Here's the low-down on today's card:
Birthday Celebration - The sketch layout was perfect for framing a large sentiment, so I made a large card measuring 21cm x 14.9cm and created a custom birthday greeting using the new Birthday Celebration bundle. This bundle is perfect for creating special cards for milestone birthdays; I stamped and heat embossed the words and added a diecut 21 from gold foil.
Wildflower Birthday - The real star of today's card is the tiered birthday cake - all decorated and ready to go, courtesy of the Wildflower Birthday designer series paper. In addition to the pretty patterned sheets, two of which I used to create my frame, there are two whole sheets of diecut cakes, flowers, balloons and more. Having used all of Jan's recipe ingredients apart from ribbon/twine, I decided to finish my card with a spray of Pretty in Pink and gold ribbons, each of which I frayed to create a fun confetti spray - it makes a change from a bow, don't you think?
A few gold sparkly enamel dots complete my card.
Not Just For The Girls - I loved the finished result of my first card, so on completion I decided to make a second card using the same products and layout, but this time with a more masculine feel:
I used another of the pre-embossed papers in the pack for my frame, this time using the same pattern for each panel, switched out the numbers for an 18 and adding another of the diecut cakes in the pack, this time backed with some gold twine:
I stamped a couple of banners behind the sentiment and added a sprinkle of gold sequins to finish. The Birthday Celebration Suite is perfect for fancy cards with lots of impact - the paper really does do a lot of the work and the diecut numbers are a great way to personalise your cards for a special milestone birthday or anniversary.
Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's projects for you to pin for easy reference:
You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any.
Here's a summary of our challenge rules:
- Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D or packaging project that fits the challenge.
- For a Recipe Challenge use all elements of the recipe - the possibilities within those parameters are endless.
- Please include the challenge graphic and link back to the challenge in your post.
- Make sure you link the specific post and not the whole blog to the Linky. Use AYSI#(insert challenge number) when uploading to a public gallery
- Please turn off word verification so that we can send you lots of feedback.
- You can combine our challenge with up to 3 other compatible challenges.
- We do reserve the right to delete, or not consider for Top Pick and Featured Artist, entries that do not comply with these guidelines.
We look forward to seeing your creations in the AYSI gallery.
Enjoy your day and I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!
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