If you are looking for a perfect birthday card, you can’t do much better than this Happy Birthday To You Decorated Cake Card. You can even earn the Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set FREE during Sale-A-Bration! Who wouldn’t like to receive a card with a beautiful birthday cake stamped on the front and decorated with flowers?! I’d like to have a real birthday cake that looks like that (with lots of icing!).
Stampin’ Up! released new Coordination Products yesterday and one of them is the set of Birthday Dies. You can stamp the cake and then die-cut it or die-cut just the flowers and pop those up on the stamped cake.
Change the look a little by die-cutting the cake stand. It doesn’t “fit” over the stamped cake pedestal so you will have to do a little adjusting or embellishing. But I think it is a very pretty die and is one we will all enjoy using.
For my card, I started with a card base of Pool Party and a layer of Whisper White. I embossed this white cardstock with the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder. I wanted just a little texture to the background layer.
I stamped the cake on another piece of Whisper White Cardstock and die cut it with the Birthday Dies, plus stamped it again on another piece of Whisper White and die cut the flowers only. As I mentioned, I wanted to use the die-cut cake stand so I just cut off the stamped cake stand to it would not show. The cake stand then fits perfectly! I die cut it out of Silver Foil Paper. The flowers were then popped up over the stamped flowers on the cake with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. Everything is colored with Stampin’ Blends markers. I also used Wink of Stella on the flowers to add some glimmer. You can see a little of the sparkle in the close-up photo below.
The greeting is from another stamp set, Itty Bitty Birthday Greetings, because I needed an itty bitty greeting to fit below the cake stand! The Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set has two greetings but the size was too large for my card. It’s okay to mix and match stamp sets! Here’s another card I made with just the Happy Birthday To You Stamp Set and the greeting fit right underneath the cake on this card, so you can do it either way.
Be sure to check out the new Coordination Products (dies and a package of designer series paper) and add them to your order.
