Birthday rainbow cards

I found myself in need of two birthday cards.  Birthday cards should be fun and happy right?  Rainbow colors!  And I also unearthed another Trinity Stamps stencil I hadn't used yet, Cake and Candles.  Seems like the perfect combo to me!

The first card is for my husband's grandpa who is turning 99 next week!  Wow!  I felt a big year needed a big card so I made his 8 3/4" x 3 3/4".

I used an array of Distress Ink colors.  For the candles I used Barn Door, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Mermaid Lagoon and Wilted Violet.  For the flames I used Squeezed Lemonade and Fossilized Amber.

I ink blended some cardstock so that my numbers (Marshmallow Numbers dies) would match the candles.  I popped them up with foam tape.  I stamped Happy (Simply Sentimental Birthday) directly on the card panel.  Birthday I stamped on a scrap and cut out using the coordinating die (Simply Sentimental Birthday dies).  I then add Midas Touch Shimmer pen over the flames and the th to add a little shimmer.

Then I felt I had too much white space at the top so I cut a strip of the Black & White Patterns paper with the Slimline Stitched Strips dies.  Ah, just right.

Now, let's talk about my second card.  This one I chose to go with a mini slimline size.  And of course, I needed to use the other part of the the Cake and Candles stencil!

Isn't it fun??  I used the same Distress Ink colors from my first card to blend my way up the stencil  The nice thing is that they are separate little sections so you can use as many as you like.

When I stamped the sentiment in black (Simply Sentimental Birthday) I managed to get the smallest of smudges on the paper. Embellishment opportunity!  I several of the Distress Inks with a shimmer spray and got splatter happy!  That's better.

I cut a piece of Bristol cardstock down to be a layer for the stenciled panel.  I again grabbed the same Distress Ink colors and blended a panel to match.  Then I added it to a black mini slimline base to really make it all pop!

Anywho, thanks for stopping by my crafty corner!

~Kristina

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