Welcome to day four of our 14th birthday celebration week! Today, creative team member Nathalie DeSousa is here with some cute birthday card inspiration AND we’re sharing three new giveaways from our partners!  Let’s get to the celebration! 

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Hello SCT friends!

It’s Nathalie here, joining in the SCT Birthday Celebration! What better way to bring joy to the party than to share a set of colorful cards using the new Pebbles Inc. “Happy Cake Day” collection!

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Supplies | Patterned paper, ephemera, cardstock stickers, puffy stickers, stamp, washi tape: Pebbles Happy Cake Day collection; Cardstock: American Crafts; Die: Altenew; Ink: Vicki Boutin for American Crafts; Tools: Scrapbook.com ink blender; Twine: Maya Road; Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L; Sequins: Recollections

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Working with the Happy Cake Day collection made it so easy and quick to create this set of cards.  For the first card, I covered the front of an A7 (5” x 7”) card with a rainbow-striped paper. Next, I used the Altenew die to cut a frame from white cardstock and backed the empty space with patterned paper, using foam adhesive to add some dimension to the frame.

There are so many cute embellishments in this collection that it was easy to choose a focal element for the card—a cute sloth! A bit of foam adhesive secured the ephemera and sentiment to the frame, and I finished it off with a few sequins.

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The next card has a more feminine look. This time, I created the card panel using polka dot paper at an A2 size. I replaced all of the dots with puffy stickers so that they bring texture to the card.   

I chose the large “happy birthday to you!” sentiment from the ephemera pack and tied a piece of string around it the card front after it was adhered with a few foam adhesive dots. I added the final touch with the small snail sticker on top of the bow. Cute and simple! 

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Now for a masculine card! First, I masked the card panel with painter’s tape and used Vicki Boutin for American Crafts pigment inks and the Scrapbook.com ink blender to create the colored stripes. Once the ink had completely dried, I used the Happy Cake Day stamp and metallic ink to add all of the cupcake images on the panel.

I cut a piece of lime green cardstock and glued it onto the bottom part of the panel, covering the cardstock seam with pieces of washi tape. Once again, I layered pieces of ephemera with a bit of foam adhesive to create the focal point of the card. All the pieces just worked together so well, that it was so easy to put these together!

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I just love how festive these cards are! They are perfect for any birthday celebration!

Happy Birthday SCT!  Thank you for always inspiring us!

~ Nathalie

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Weren’t Nathalie’s cards lovely?! Let’s see what our partners are sharing with us today! 

Doodlebug Design

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Doodlebug Design would like to wish Scrapbook & Cards Today a very Happy 14th Birthday! We feel so fortunate to be a partner with this wonderful publication and the beautiful people that work so hard to bring us inspiration!

 We would love to offer one very lucky winner a birthday party prize! And what better way to celebrate than with a gold daily doodle planner, a confetti calendar insert and some sweet mini stickers for a bit more bling! 

 

Scrapbook.com

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Scrapbook.com is so happy to be a part of celebrating our longtime friends at SCT Magazine on their 14th Birthday! We look forward to many, many more wonderful years of crafting beautiful memories together! We would love to give away one (1) Scrapbook.com Exclusive 360 Craft Tower in white with 4 shelves. You’ll be grinning when you start organizing and spinning with the exclusive Scrapbook.com 360 Craft Tower. This customizable rotating organizer is the genius storage solution you’ve been waiting for. Great for using on your tabletop, desk, shelving system, or even tucked away in a closet until you need it! 

 

Thermoweb

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Happy Happy Birthday to our friends at SCT! What better what to get in the party spirit than with our NEW Rina K. Designs Electro-POP Collection! Electro-Pop is filled with BRIGHT and colorful NEON Glitz Glitter Gels along with our Sweet Stuff StampnStencil products! They’re the perfect products to use when wishing someone a very Happy Birthday! 

Amazing prizes today, right? How lucky are we to work with such amazing industry partners! To enter today’s giveaways:

Leave a comment below by April 2nd at midnight EST, telling us what new paper crafting product is on your wish list this year! Please also take a moment after you leave your comment to visit our partners on Facebook or on their Instagram feed to let them know how much you are loving these prizes! They always love to hear from you :)

Winners will be announced here on the blog on April 3rd! Good luck!