Krafty Chicks challenge #754 - birthday

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week is Week 1, our theme is 'birthday' and our hostess is Leanne. We always need birthday cards, gift packaging and decorations so I'm sure you will find this week a breeze!  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I always need birthday cards but didn't have anyone in mind when I made my card so I just had fun.  I haven't used this die set for ages so decided to give it some love.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A close look at the die cut:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting the large word die which comes in three separate dies.  The background was cut from white card, the happy from red card and the birthday from pink card.  I added some shading to the happy and birthday words with a slightly darker ink for some extra interest.  I adhered them together with liquid glue.  I cut a white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and once again grabbed the snowy background stamp (as it really looks like splatter to me) and used the same red and pink inks to create a fun and playful background for my sentiment to rest on.  I matted this onto a pink layer with double sided tape.  I added the die cut sentiment with foam tape.  I finished by added a few clear sequins around the word and added shimmer pen all over the happy and birthday words.  The panel was added to my card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and used some left over pieces from the background, adding them at the top and bottom of the panel.  I also added a thin strip of pink card to cover the join.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre of the panel with black ink.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  A really fun card and you could make it in every colour of the rainbow and it would still look fab.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

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I hope you will be able to join us for our 'birthday' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments.

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - birthday trio die set

Gina K Designs - snowy BG stamp

Gina K Designs - on the inside - birthday stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - red hot & passionate pink

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card (currently not available but this 250gsm smooth white card is an alternative in stock here)

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Tonic Studios - Nuvo aqua shimmer pen in glitter gloss