Happy Birthday To You

Instructions

Make Your Base
Cut an 8.5 X 11 sheet of Whisper White card stock in half. Score it on the long side at 4 1/4. Fold it in half. Run a bone folder across the crease to make it nice and crisp.
Cut Your Layers
Cut a piece of Night of Navy cardstock to be 5 1/4" X4.
Cut a piece of Whisper White cardstock using a Sweetly Stiched die and your favorite die-cutting machine.
Cut a piece of Night of Navy cardstock using a Sweetly Stitched die and your favorite die-cutting machine.
Emboss Your Base Layer and Envelope
Emboss the large Night of Navy layer using the Parisian Flourish Embossing folder and your favorite die-cutting machine.
Emboss the envelope flap using the Parisian Flourish Embossing folder and your favorite die-cutting machine.
Assemble Your Layers
Glue the large Night of Navy layer to the card front using Tombow Multipurpose glue. It works best with embossed cardstock.
Attach the small Night of Navy die-cut to the Whisper White die-cut.
Attach the Whisper White die-cut to the card front leaving enough room for the sentiment.
Stamp the Sentiments
Stamp the Happy Birthday sentiment on the inside of the card using Night of Navy ink.
Stamp the Celebrate sentiment on a piece of Whisper White cardstock cut to 2 3/4" X 3/4" using Night of Navy ink.
Stamp & Color the Cake
Stamp the cake on a Whisper White scrap using Stazon ink. TIP #1: You must use Stazon ink when water coloring because it's an alcohol-based ink that won't bleed when the water hits it. TIP #2: Clean your stamp immediately with the Stazon cleaner so that your stamp doesn't get ruined!
Color the image using Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Garden Green, and Rich Razzleberry watercolor pencils. Use more color where you want shadows and less color where the light is shining.
Use a blender pen to 'smooth' out the color by blending it.
Finish off by coloring the flowers with Clear Wink of Stella.
DIe Cut the Cake
Die-cut the cake using the Birthday dies and your favorite die-cutting machine
Attach the Elements
Attach the die-cut cake to the Night of Navy panel using Dimensionals.
Attach the sentiment to the front below the panels using Dimensionals.
Add a Pretty Knot
Take a 6" piece of Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and tie a square knot.
Trim the ends.
Attach the bow to the cake stand using Glue Dots
Add Some Pretty Pearls
Color two large pearls with the Dark Night of Navy Blends: TIP: Use the smaller end so that the brush tip doesn't get ruined.
Attach the pearls to both ends of the sentiment.
DONE!