Bold Birthday Cards with Marcie

Hey crafty friends! It’s Marcie here with two colourful and bold birthday cards using sentiments from Mari Party. I adore the cute balloon bouquet and pile of presents in this set, but just knew I wanted to create something that would let the sentiments shine. I used two of my favourite ways to feature colour on my cards- ombre and rainbow.

On the first A2 card I used a variety of blue-green dye inks to stamp the bold birthday sentiment down the front of the card base. My MISTI tool helped keep the ‘happy birthday’ lined up perfectly as I stamped. The other sentiment from the Mari Party set- a beautiful script font- was heat embossed in a silver sparkle powder on teal cardstock, trimmed and adhered with foam tape. That same silver sparkle powder was used to heat emboss a strip along the bottom edge of the card. Post-It tape was used to mask off the edge before embossing to keep my line straight. Clear sequins of various sizes were added to finish it off.  *If you wanted to add some extra sparkle to this card, you could add a messy bundle of silver thread under the sentiment, some glitter glue to the sequin centres and maybe a spritz of shimmer spray.*

My next card uses the bold birthday sentiment as a sort of a background shadow. I left the stamp on my MISTI from the previous card and this time stamped it repeatedly in a light grey dye ink down the card. I did the same thing with script sentiment, only this time in rainbow order and slightly offset. A few flatback silver pearls complete the card.

Here are the two of them together! Perfect to add to my stash of birthday cards and even better- they didn’t take long to make and could easily be recreated in any colour scheme you want!

Do you love the Mari Party set? Check out these projects from our design team for more inspiration!

Thanks for joining me today! Don’t forget you can use the code MARCIE10 to receive 10% your purchases at The Ink Road.