Firstly I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours & Sketches for selecting my card as one of the weekly winners. It’s an honour to be chosen.

The title of the post isn’t actually wishing everyone a Happy Birthday (although if you’re reading this on your birthday, Happy Birthday to you), rather it’s the name of the stamp set. Happy Birthday, Everyone is one of the hostess sets in this year’s annual catalogue; I really like the typeface.

It took a few tries to get the Happy Birthday in the right place with the blooms not too close and not too far away – and since it’s a two step process where I stamped the stems first, I had an iteration where the blooms were encroaching on the sentiment. But paper isn’t expensive – and it has two sides so I kept trying until it was right. The sentiment is stamped in wisteria wonder and the stems in pear pizzazz on very vanilla cardstock Then I stamped the flowers also in wisteria wonder using the stamp-a-ma-jig for placement. I then matted this with some wisteria wonder card and glued that to a pear pizzazz card base. Isn’t the envelope liner awesome? It’s the new subtles DSP stack in pear pizzazz which I cut out with the largest of the envelope liners framelits dies.

Now if I could just manage to make a card that I’m happy with for the latest CAS Colours & Sketches challenge – it’s a sketch this week and I find these tricky. But it’s good to stretch yourself. Apparently.

See you tomorrow,

Liz