Birthday Flamingos and Balloons

Hello, hello, today I am sharing a card I made for last weeks Craft Roulette, here are the parameters….

… and this is how I met the perimeters. This is a card for someone special, my granddaughter. The fruit colours are blueberry, strawberry, pink grapefruit, and lime. I stretched it a bit with the critters by using flamingoes but they are special to my granddaughter. I used water colour pencils to add all the shading.

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I cut the card base and layers as shown below.

I cut the borders from the Border Blend Trims, I used a pink water colour pencil (mine are retired Stampin’Up) and added shading with the pencil along the bottom, then blended with water and a paintbrush.

I added the layers and borders to the card base as shown.

I cut 2 panels from the Tagbook Pop up and assembled them following Karen’s VIDEO tutorial.

I cut the pieces below from the Tagbook pop up. I trimmed the blue tags into rectangles and cut the square in half. I added a bit of extra pink trim to the square halves. Then added them to the mechanism.

I cut pieces from the Balloon Collage Add On, Explosion card, Birthday Charms, Big Birthday Charms, Beach Charms, Tiny Accessories 4, and Numbers sets. I added shading with water coloured pencils and a paintbrush with water, I added highlights with a white Gelly roll pen.

I stamped a greeting from the Photo Memories Stamps onto a small white rectangle and started adding the elements to the card base. I added a third rectangle to the bottom right with some balloons and the small flamingo.

I added more balloons to the cardbase to the inner left and upper right. I also added some random sequins around.

I cut the red and white panels as shown below. I used a corner rounder to trim the corners then layered.

I diecut Happy Birthday and added shading with a water coloured pencil and white highlights. Then layered onto the Happy Birthday Shadow. I added all the elements as shown. I made the number five into a candle and added it on top of the cake. I sprinkled some random sequins around as well.