Count The Good Times
My card this week was a commission from a lovely lady who wanted a special card for her Mum’s 90 th birthday. The brief was food, fireworks and celebrations! For the food element, I used Visible Image’s Blow Out The Candles stamp set. At first, I stamped just one cake but I thought it looked a bit meagre for a celebration cake so I got out my stamping platform and did some partial stamping and masking to create a 3-tier cake, drawing in the centres and bottom edges with a fine liner. I coloured the cake with Copic markers before fussy cutting along the lines and then I went around the edge with a black Sharpie. To make the cake even more celebratory, I added Nuvo glitter drops all over the icing for some sparkle. Next, for the background. The fireworks were created using the Paper Rose Fireworks stencil and a combination of Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean and Mustard Seed. Since this was a very special card, I thought a slider ...