This month is birthday themed, and I have loads of beautiful birthday stamps with candles, cakes, balloons etc...but not waltzingmouse ones, so I had to be a little creative!
The main bit of the card is the patchwork background which is various designs from the Off beat Background set. I wanted the stamp colour to compliment the cardstock, so they're lovely and subtle. I used tone on tone. I then realised I only had one birthday sentiment, and it said Birthday Wishes, but I wanted it to say Happy birthday, so this is where my nifty partial stamping came in handy! I got the Happy Thanksgiving stamp, and the Birthday Wishes stamp and only partially inked them up. This was quite easy for the happy, as I only inked the left side of the stamp. The birthday bit was trickier, as the wishes text is very close, but I used some post it notes to cover up that bit whilst I inked up.
Here is what the two individual stamps look like.
I usually like my sentiment central, and having decided to use my Labels 4 nestabilities I played around with it, but wanted to try and stamp on the label. It was then that I had the lightbulb moment of putting some candles on the label, and using the individual branch and leaf stamp from Teeny trees was able to make some pretty funky candles!!!
I'm really pleased with how this turned out!
Fabulous bright birthday card, love the patchwork feel.
ReplyDeleteLove your creative solution with the two sentiment stamps. Great birthday card!
ReplyDeleteSuch a bright and cheerful card. I really like the tone-on-tone use of the offbeat backgrounds - very funky (and I can imagine this in greens/blues). The birthday sentiment with candles is fab! Great card!
ReplyDeleteA great solution to get the sentiment of your choice and inspired use of the branch/leaf stamps to create candles. Very resourceful and a beautiful card.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely card :-)
ReplyDeleteVery inventive tag! I love how it came out, and your colors are great!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great card in these bright and beautiful colors. Outstanding!
ReplyDeleteLove the patchwork background...
ReplyDeletebut absolutely fabby idea for the candles and sentiment!
Beautiful!
Love how you combined the sentiments! and that lovely vibrant patchwork background is super! love all the subtle stamping going on there. Gorgeous! Thank you so much for waltzing along with us!!
ReplyDeleteFantastic way to combine the sentiments, I'm going to have to try that. Love your patchwork design too, with all the background stamping!
ReplyDeleteWhat a bright fun quilted bg you created with the colors and stampings Cassie! love your candle lit sentiment too!
ReplyDeleteSorry! I had been looking for Cassie's post (which wasn't up yet) and had her name on my mind when I wrote my comment for you!!
ReplyDeleteThis is just gorgeous and creative. I love the quilted squares and the bright colours. Great thinking for the panel!
ReplyDeleteHugs
Carol x
Wonderful!!! LOVE your design and the colors are soo happy and bright! Perfect BD card!
ReplyDeleteWow, aren't you the most creative person around! I love how you were able to create a really great birthday card with only one birthday sentiment and no images. Great job and I love that you showed us exactly how you created your card.
ReplyDeleteIt turned out amazing. I love what you did with the basic layers, and the sentiment looks great in the corner!
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I love your beautiful handmade grid bg!! The colors are so beautifully complimentary!! And your creative sentiment with the candles...fabulous!!
ReplyDeleteGreat design on your card, I love the square grid--the colors and patterns are perfect! Your sentiment finishes it off wonderfully!
ReplyDeleteChris L.
Very clever with the candles and happy bday! I love seeing the difficult made easy... the 'I don't have' into a wonderful creation. that's what's so great about Claire's stamps...you can make them work for you!
ReplyDeleteThat nice white label pops against the bright background. And genius combining the two stamps for the sentiment - and turning branches into candles! You really exercised your ingenuity for this card, but it is so great that it was worth all the mental gymnastics!
ReplyDeletegreat mixing of images
ReplyDeleteGreat card! Love the patchwork and those candles are SO clever.
ReplyDeleteYour card looks great - really effective. x
ReplyDeleteReally pretty!! I love the squares: looks like quilting :-)
ReplyDeleteI love the patchwork background and it your sentiment is so cleverly done (I love the candles!!)
ReplyDeleteI think I accidentally closed the window before doing word verification! I love the creative use of the stamps from Teeny Trees to create your candles! That's just absolutely brilliant! Tied with the fun quilt squares that you stamped with fun backgrounds and the fabulous color choices... this card is just a stunner!
ReplyDeleteGreat colours and clever solutions to get the most out of your stamps. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFabby card, love it
ReplyDeleteali x