Birthday Wishes with the Jumbled Line Collage by Jean Okimoto

Birthdays happen - and some of us need a slimline card wide enough to hold a lot of candles! The new Jumbled Line Collage makes it easy to create 21 paper-pieced candles with bright blocks of cardstock from our 6x6 Collections. Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a birthday design - including a greeting from the Poppystamps Birthday Blowout Clear Stamp Set.

Our new adhesive Fairy Jewels are available in brights, pastels and clear gems. I could have used the yellow jewels from the Bright Jewels set, but I wanted to check if the Clear Jewels could be custom-colored with Sharpies. I colored them with alternating layers of yellow and orange Sharpies and let them dry while I made the card. They passed the Sharpie test!

Cut white cardstock with the largest Wrapped Stitched Slim Rectangles die. Cut the rectangle with Jumbled Line Collage.

Cut cardstock from the Berry Red and Sunny Yellow Collections to color the candles - 2-¾" x 2" of the medium and dark pinks and 2-¾" x 1-⅝" of the yellow. Tape them behind the collage. Attach the rectangle to a white slimline card (3-⅝" x 8-⅝").

Cut Layered Daisies, Layered Fresh Flowers and Layered Cosmos from the same pinks and yellow - cut two of the cosmos. Cut Vertical Lines from a green sheet in the Lush Green Collection. Assemble the flowers and attach them to the card.

Stamp the Poppystamps Birthday Blowout greeting on a light orange sheet from the Sunny Orange Collection with Shady Lane VersaFine Clair. Attach it with foamtape.

Attach the Fairy Jewels for the candle flames. It's easy to remove jewels from the plastic sheet if you wiggle them gently with tweezers before lifting them from the sheet.

Place a layer of cardstock over the card front to protect it in the mail - it may require special handling and postage.

Hope your favorite storefront or online retailer has received the Under the Sea release so you can enjoy creating with it as much as we have! Admire and be inspired by Dave's wonderful Idea Book.