Happy, Happy Birthday!

Happy, Happy Birthday!

Hi everyone!

My nephew's birthday is fast approaching, so definitely time for a bespoke card!

His current love at the moment is trains and, of all things, level crossings! But sadly I had nothing in my stash that fit the bill.

Luckily though, he also really loves his new road play mat from Ikea, and I still had some rather vintage papers that must be a good decade old now that came up trumps for that theme!

So, with the papers as my backdrop, I created a little scene for this special 5 x 7 card.

I knew I wanted to add some sentiments as "street names" to the map (à la the Destination series of products by The Greetery), but first I needed to create all the dimensional elements so I could arrange everything on my card before stamping the sentiments and then gluing all the elements down.

I created a banner that would fly in the sky behind an imaginary aeroplane using the "Happy, Happy Birthday!" sentiment from Concord & 9th's Make a Wish stamp set.

I used The Greetery's Bold Numbers to cut the 2, then I used a banner from the Sentiment Suite Basics set and some ribbon elements from the Cake Pops Banner set to create a little podium for the 2 to sit on.

I used Finley's ABCs from Lawn Fawn to cut out the letters and arranged them on the card so I could stamp the "a million birthday wishes just for you" sentiment from Mama Elephant's Birthday Messages along the road.

I then added a few short greetings from The Greetery's Cake Pop Sentiments set as additional "street names". Any short sentiments would have worked here, but these were already curved to fit on a banner and just fit perfectly in those grassy areas on the map.

And then it was just a matter of assembling all the dimensional elements.

Hopefully he'll forgive me for not giving him a level crossing card this year! ;) But with any luck, next year's theme will be more easy to reproduce on a card!

Until next time, happy crafting!



Related Products