Happy Happy Happy Birthday

I used the Biggest Wish stamp set this week to create my card background. It forms part of the sentiment as well as the main pattern - it's a neat trick to keep up your sleeve for the times you want a card without an image.

I picked out four ink pads and my shammy so that I could change the colour up as I went. Then all I did was plonk my first HAPPY down, cleaned off the stamp, inked it in a different colour, and turned the stamp so that it lined up to the first one at about a 90 degree angle. Then I did this repeatedly until the page was covered with HAPPYs of all different colours all slotting in together.

I fussy cut the birthday out and added some dimensionals behind it to stand off the page and snipped off a bit of coordinating open weave ribbon to add to the birthday theme.

I didn't want to leave the envelope blank so I added a few HAPPYs to just a third of the envelope flap. To have covered the whole thing seemed a bit much. I like the tapered off look it gives.

Best thing with this design is that you can change up the colours to suit your taste! You could even use a different word. I got the idea for it from a card Christine Wrede made (she used the HALLO stamp from the German set) - with thanks!

Product List

Biggest Wish Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [155052] $30.00	Fresh Freesia A4 Cardstock [155614] $15.25	Pale Papaya A4 Cardstock [155669] $15.25	Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] $15.25	Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock [124392] $15.25
Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate [131291] $15.25	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad [155611] $13.00	Pale Papaya Classic Stampin' Pad [155670] $13.00	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $13.00
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107] $13.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00	Fresh Freesia 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155615] $12.25	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220] $8.75	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $6.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $8.00	Simply Shammy [147042] $14.00