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!

Find more of Mindy’s work here : Blog | Instagram | YouTube

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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!