Happy Birthday 2 U Candle Card

Yay I got to play Craft Roulette this weekend , and make a card I needed to have done sooner then I typically get them done. Lol. Gotta love when things fall into place and I really love how this card turned out!!!

Soooo I really wore my stretchy pants for this one, as typically an A2 card is a specific sized card that is 4 1/4” x 5 1/2” and I don’t know how I forgot this parameter when I started the card. Who I am kidding, I got excite when I found card stock to match this fun paper that reminded me of a blue and white tea set that I own, and the green for green tea, and that the candles had “stripes” I totally got half way through assembly when I had that ooh oh moment. There really isn’t a way to make a square accordion card into an A2 so I was just going to finish the card and forget about submitting then I had the idea to mix papers on the greeting on the front and made the “A” and the “2” in gold. oh and I also fashioned the dog into my sweet Lexi wearing a party hat. Phew parameters met ✔️

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The pattered paper is from my stash (probably from Costco years ago) the 2 different blues are Color Core Cardstock also from my stash. Neither the paper or the cardstock is thick enough to make an accordion card so I used some Sizzix double sided adhesive sheets and put it on the back of one each of the paper and the cardstock, on the back of the patterned paper I used white cardstock, and on the back of the blues I used the patterned paper. I diecut each of the 3 pieces using the largest die in the Fancy Label Accordion set (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ ) . This is what they look like on the front and the back.

Die cut the Birthday Candles Add on piece, I inked the edges with blue ink to soften them a bit. I missed a few photos, but I diecut the candles from the 2 blues and the pattered paper, and used a white Jelly Roll pen to draw the stripes and dots using the stencil feature on the dies. I inked the edges of the patterned paper using the same blue as on the panel. I wanted the 49 to look like candles so cut the tops of the candles and adhered them to the back of the 49. I blacked out the wicks of all the candles and added gold glitter flames to them.

***please note that the photo of the panel folded with the candles, I have the folds reversed, they need to be opposite of what the photo is.

Because it is Color Core Cardstock I scuffed up all the edges, and I inked the edges of the patterned paper and the white cardstock. I started to assemble the card (Birthday Candle add on instructions)

Add the front panel. Using Label dies from the Fancy Label accordion set I cut layers for the front and back of the first panel. I used the Happy Birthday Lorna Label Add on and cut off the label to use the greeting. I also cut the”2” from Numbers set and the “U” from the Alphabet set using a combo of the papers used making sure the “A” and “2” are cut from gold glitter card stock. I decided to add a shadow behind the “2U”. For the inside label I assembled the dog from the Cat and Dog set and added a few candles.

I needed a place to sign, so I layered a label as shown and squared the corners so it will tuck into the corner of the card. I used a Crop-o-dile to punch out some small gold circles and added them randomly around.

I wasn’t in love with how the back looked so I cut out another panel from the patterned paper, and inked it up to match the rest. I cut out the center, and cut through the the frame so I could cover the white of the middle frame. I cut the centre in half to cover the back of the candle panel. If I were doing this again I would have had the back all be the same paper or colour from the beginning.