Hello, hello! It’s day two of our 16th Birthday Week celebration, and we’re here to share card inspiration as well as FIVE new giveaways today! Let’s not waste any time, and get right to the fun with Mindy Eggen!
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Welcome, crafters! It’s Mindy Eggen with you today sharing a bright and colorful birthday card. Nothing screams birthday to me more than lots of colors!
Supplies | Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays; Honeybee Stamps: Secret Garden A2 cover plate, Miss You Big Time stamp, Miss You Big Time die, Intense Black Ink, Modern Spring gems; Gina K Designs: Birthday Babble Sentiment Sheets, foam squares; Stampers Anonymous: Splat Box
Instead of going with traditional confetti and balloons, I thought I’d use one of my cover dies from Honeybee Stamps.
Have you ever tried sprays? In particular, gloss sprays? They are a ton of fun and quickly apply color. They do not reactivate with water so you can layer colors on top without the colors mixing.
I die cut my Secret Garden A2 cover plate from white cardstock and placed it in a Splat Box. This is just a designated box I have for sprays. I then went around my panel with a rainbow of color using the Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays. As a finishing touch to the background, I spritzed on a Sheer Sparkle Spray.
Adding this sprayed panel to a white cardstock base really makes the colors pop!
Now it’s time for the sentiment, which must take center stage. I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Miss You Big Time stamp set in black ink and used the coordinating die to cut it out.
Add separation from the background by die cutting the sentiment a few more times from white cardstock and layering together to create dimension. The simplest things make big impacts.
The final icing to the cake is a smaller sentiment using Birthday Babble Sentiment Sheets popped up with foam squares and a few gems from the Honeybee Modern Spring collection.
Did this card take a lot of time? Nope. Just because a card is handmade doesn’t mean it has to be complicated! It’s not the amount of time put into a card that gives it meaning, it’s the message you are conveying and even just the fact of sending the card to show someone you are thinking of them. This can make all the difference to someone.
I hope you enjoyed today’s card and whenever your birthday is; Happy Birthday!
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What a great reminder from Mindy that we don’t have to make our card designs complicated to make them special! And what a colorful and gorgeous card! Now, let’s get to today’s giveaways from our generous partners:
PRIZE #1
How would you like to be able to purchase some of those beautiful Honey Bee Stamps products that Mindy used above? You can, if you win this:
Happy Sweet 16 from all of us from Honey Bee Stamps!
PRIZE #2
Our second prize today is from our friends at Doodlebug Design, who always bring a rainbow of colour to the party!
Happy Sweet 16 Scrapbook and Cards Today! We are so very happy for you and happy to be a part of your celebration! What better way to celebrate than with a birthday giveaway that has everything you need to make numerous birthday cards! Our prize comes complete with a “hey cupcake” birthday girl 6×6 pad, a “birthday girl” stamp and die set, a cupcake sprinkles enamel sticker, and two birthday-themed doodle-pops! This is a value of over a $55! So join in the celebration and all of this could be yours!
PRIZE #3
Prize three is from Your Next Stamp, whose cute creatures would make any birthday card complete!
Happy Sweet 16 SCT! So happy to be a part of this awesome celebration! We look forward to many more amazing years of fun, transformation, and inspiration!
GRAND PRIZE #1
The first grand prize up for grabs today is from our friends at Creative Memories, and includes a huge selection of goodies!
Get all the decorative products in Creative Memories’ NEWEST collection, Wide Open Places, plus two (2) complementing border punches FREE! This bountiful bundle includes the Wide Open Places Paper Pack, Texture Paper Pack, Variety Mat Pack, Laser Cut Mats, Laser Cut Borders, Stickers, as well as the Field Fence Border Punch and Wildflowers Border Punch! This prize pack will have you feelin’ dandy, creating layouts of country getaways, working days on the family farm, horseback riding, rodeos, and so much more!
GRAND PRIZE #2
Our second grand prize of the day gives you a shopping spree to The Stamp Market shop to choose your own birthday gift, even if it isn’t yet your birthday!
Want to win one of the prizes listed above? Simply leave a comment on this post telling us your favourite flavour of birthday cake by midnight ET on Wednesday, March 30th! We will choose five random winners for the prizes above and announce all of our Birthday Week winners on the blog on April 1st!
There you have it! It’s only day two and already there has been so many amazing things to share with you! Come back tomorrow for even more!
Vanilla with caramel icing
Carrot cake with walnuts and cream cheese frosting! Yum! ????????
Wow! What great prizes!
My favorite flavor of birthday cake is German Chocolate, with the traditional nut/coconut frosting. Yummy!!
Dairy Queen chocolate ice cream cake for the win!
Chocolate, always chocolate ;)
YES!!! You’re my kind of person.
My favourite cake is one I just had on my birthday, chocolate peanut butter cake.
My favourite flavour of birthday cake is vanilla served with strawberries & whipping cream. Fattening but oh so yummy!
Black forest cake! So yummy.
My favorite birthday cake is a vanilla ice cream cake with hot fudge topping
I am a chocolate lover. Chocolate is always the favorite at my house. Beautiful card!
OMG what an amazing selection of giveaways!!!
I love any type of cake (lol), but my favorite birthday cake flavor would have to be CHOCOLATE:)
Angel food cake!!????
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is my absolute favorite!!!!
WOW!!! How amazing are these prizes!!! Thank you so much to the companies for their wonderful gifts!! Happy birthday to you guys!! My fav birthday cake is plain vanilla
Wow this is a fantastic celebration. Thanks so much for the chance to win! My favourite flavour of cake is carrot with cream cheese icing. Yum!
Happy, happy 16th! Thanks so much for offering us prizes to celebrate YOU! I am a white cake with cream cheese frosting birthday cake girl!
So as far as I am concerned, it must be Dark Chocolate. Dark Chocolate base and then anything else added is a bonus…
Cold Stone midnight chocolate fudge ice cream cake. Oh, the calories- but worth it!
Gorgeous card! My favorite birthday cake flavor is actually angel food cake. LOL! It’s so yummy!!!!
I’m a chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate girl myself. Publix has an amazing Ganache cake that is wonderful!
What a lovely birthday card :) my favourite flavour of birthday cake is traditional vanilla or an ice cream cake from DQ!
My favorite birthday cake flavor is Italian Cream Cake.
Oh this is easy — white cake, white buttercream icing — LOTS of white icing! In a pinch, it doesn’t even have to be buttercream — that “old fashioned” bakery or Wilton icing (shortening and powdered sugar!!) is just fine!
I love Red Velvet!!! Yummy moist cake with cream cheese frosting – it is so good.
Ohhhh CAKE! I love all the cakes. LOL. But if I have to choose I do Enjoy a Vanilla cake with chocolate icing. YUM!
My mom’s carrot cake.
Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting…oh, my
Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!!!!
Ohhhh that Honey Bee die❣️Happy Birthday…great giveaways. Thank you!
My #1 Cake is without doubt Chocolate/chocolate ???? Love the card and now I think I need to try that gloss spay ????????????????
Wow. Great card and great giveaways. Your card, Mindy, reminds me to pull out my rainbow sparkle paper.
I love, love carrot cake.
I live on a beef farm so the prize 4 with related farm theme items is what I am preferring.
My favorite birthday cake flavor isn’t the norm.. it’s a vintage recipe pineapple upside down cake made in an iron skillet. My grandmother used to make it for me every year.
Yum – birthday cake! My mom always made me a plain vanilla cake from scratch with swirls of pink food coloring in the cake. Oh, how I miss those cakes but treasure the memories.
My favorite flavor of birthday cake is an Angel Food Cake and my sweet momma makes me one every year!! Thanks for the opportunity to win any of these amazing prizes!!
Love this post. I’d love to try some of these products ❤️ Black Forest cake for the win!
I love all cake. Anything chocolate. But carrot cake is yummy too.
Carrot Cake! It’s kind of a tradition in our house lol.
Chocolate!
Vanilla cake with chocolate peanut butter icing. Yummy. Thanks for a chance at these wonderful prizes.
My favorite cake is German Chocolate! My mom used to make the best!!
Mmm… Favourite flavour of birthday cake… My mom used to make a strawberry-like cake with vanilla icing. Delicious!
I have a weird birthday cake…I prefer a cheesecake to a regular flavored cake!
My favourite birthday cake is chocolate with chocolate icing!
My favorite birthday cake is chocolate with a raspberry filing and buttercream frosting. Yummy!! Mindy should send that card to me as my bday is March 31 (he-he-he)!!
Double Chocolate with fudge buttercream frosting!!!!!
Well I think I’d say marble so that it includes the best of both vanilla and chocolate :) Thanks to all the sponsors for such great prizes
Not sure it is a flavour but I love angel food topped with strawberries. No whip cream.
Love, Love, Love these new products!