I just love how this birthday card turned out. I’ve been playing with my new Bic markers and my Prismacolor pencils. I mostly used the markers to color this stamp. I used stippling to do the shading, when the coloring was finished I carefully tore the image and then applied Tim Holz’s “old paper” distress ink to the edges of all of the elements.

The striped background paper is Basic Grey, I just love the whole Romani pack which was used for all the elements of the card.

The red flourish was cut with the Home Accents cartridge, ruby red Perfect Pearls added just the “perfect” textured touch! Just a word of advice, it needs to dry overnight so don’t add it at the last moment. I also used perfect pearls for the candles and Ice Stickles for “Happy.” I’ve actually used this Lime Ice color quite a few times, it is more versatile than I’d have imagined. If I do this card again I’ll leave off the pearled flowers, it is the only thing on this card I’d change.

Lastly, the cake is from Celebrations, and the word could be welded in CDS with any font but it was from Walk In My Garden. When I finished the card, the left and right didn’t look balanced and cohesive so I used a black marker to add shadows to all the elements. It was just what it needed to tie the whole card together.

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