For today’s card, I created a cheerful birthday scene inspired by a classic, colorful neighborhood using products from The Sassy Club. I started by die cutting a green and white polka dot pattern paper from the Rainbow Street 6x6 paper pad with a rectangle die from the Kindred Stamps Card Basics set, then set that aside for my background. Next, I die cut the brick pattern paper from the same pad using a square die from the same Card Basics set. I also die cut the street sign and street post pieces using The Sassy Club Sassy Street dies. The lamp post, sign inserts, and light pieces were cut from green and white cardstock, while the outlines were cut from yellow cardstock. For the sentiment, I die cut a banner strip from the Kindred Stamps sentiment dies and stamped “happy birthday” with clear embossing ink onto the larger street sign insert, then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I layered all of the street sign pieces together and assembled the lamp post with its light.
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I stamped four neighborhood characters from The Sassy Club stamp set using Onyx black ink and colored them with Olo markers, adding a few highlights with a white gel pen before fussy cutting them out. I also stamped “best day ever” from a Scrapbook.com birthday stamp set using Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink onto the white banner strip. To assemble the card, I glued the green polka dot rectangle to the center of an A2 white card base. I attached the sentiment strip to the brick square and trimmed off any excess before gluing it toward the bottom of the card, leaving an even border around the sides and bottom. I popped up the street sign with 1mm foam adhesive near the top of the card, then arranged and adhered the characters and lamp post along the bottom edge of the brick square to finish the scene.
