Bespoke Birthday Wishes

Morning all!

I'm back today with a rather bespoke birthday card for my niece.

When queried as to what she wanted on her card this year, she emphatically told me a cake with her age on it, and it needed to be purple!

Whatever the birthday girl wants, the birthday girl gets! 

So I naturally reached for the essential supplies to bring this request to life in all its glittery purple glory:

The Takes the Cake die set from The Greetery.

This die set has seen a lot of use - it coordinates with the rest of the Takes the Cake product suite, but is also a great stand-alone set for creating different cake designs.

I used Lilac cardstock from Concord & 9th for the cake base, then cut different shades of glittery cardstock for the frosting.

Before assembling the cake, I needed to create the perfect celebratory background for it.

The Rainbow Ever After 6x6 paper pad from Lawn Fawn has some lovely ombré backgrounds in it, including this one that goes from light pink to minty green.

I embossed the Ticker Tape Background stamp in super sparkly embossing powder straight onto the paper to cover my card base (I'm sure the Ticker Tape hot foil plate would look a treat too!).

For more celebratory sparkle, I cut the Curly Q Streamers from glitter cardstock and arranged them over the background.

Once the cake was assembled with the matching Cake Stand die, I added one of the Tear Strip Tags Birthday sentiments cut with the Tear Strip Banners die.

This was perfect for lining up the letters of my nieces name cut with one of my all-time favourite alphabets: Oliver's Stitched ABCs.

And of course, she wanted her age atop her cake, so I used the Bold Numbers set from The Greetery (currently out of stock - but subscribe to request it) to add that.

Finally, there was room for a little extra birthday pizazz at the top, so I added a little fringe detail to make the card a touch taller and add some more texture.

I'm hoping this card meets the birthday girl's exacting requirements - who knows what she'll request next year!

Until next time, happy crafting!