Birthday Candles and Cake

These are the birthday cards my Create-A-Bunch girls made on Tuesday. The combination of these cards plus the Easter cards I posted on Monday night took us just a hair over our lunch hour because I didn't time them out when I made them like I usually do (I created this one at the DeKalb Crop and cut all the pieces while I was there, and wasn't even thinking about the timing issue) All the same, the cards were a hit, and it's a testament to my new stampers that they could make these two cards plus to of the Easter card without going drastically over time. When we started in December, there would have been no way that could have happened.

The inspiration for this card initially came from the February 26th Cupcake Challenge posted on the Taylored Expressions blog, and while it follows the sketch dead-on, it's a little hard to see, because I used the candles as the left-hand panel.

The background used the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug embossing folder, the candles are cut from another Cuttlebug die, Birthday Wishes. The "happy" on the candles is from The Angel Company's "Family is Forever" stamp set, the "birthday" is from the "Marvelous Mottos" set, and the cake is from the retired "Let's Party" set.

I used Copic markers BG45, Y11 and Y15. The flames on all the candles are accented with Crystal Stickles, which all the girls go nuts over. They even added them to the Easter eggs on the Easter card, even though I didn't use them in the sample.