Sending You a Splash of Happy!

I have another project to share using the Spellbinders Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking Kit, and this time I went straight for the champagne!

One of the things I love about the Just Add Cake box is just how many completely different styles of cards you can create from it. For this card, I used the Confetti Pop Etched Dies to create a champagne bottle that looks like it has just been popped — cork flying, streamers curling and a huge celebratory splash bursting right out of the bottle.

I kept the colour palette fairly simple so all that movement could be the star of the card. The soft Blush ColorWheel Cardstock background gives the design a fun, feminine feel without competing with the die cuts. For the bottle, I layered Fern and Peridot ColorWheel Cardstock to create the different shades of green and give it a little more dimension.

The oversized splash is what really makes this one for me. I layered the delicate splash pieces so they explode upward from the neck of the bottle, surrounding the popped cork and creating lots of dimension without adding a lot of visual weight.

Of course, a champagne bottle needed a little sparkle! I added the curly streamers in metallic gold and scattered them around the splash to carry that celebratory feeling across the card.

For the finishing touch, I added the “Sending You a Splash of Happy” from the June AllCrate club sentiment along the bottom in gold. It ties in beautifully with the streamers and works for so many occasions — birthday, congratulations, a new job, an anniversary, or really any occasion that calls for popping a bottle and celebrating.

I especially love that this card shows another side of the Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking Kit. The box may be built around birthdays, but the individual dies and sentiments can go far beyond birthday cards. Confetti Pop is definitely one of those sets I can see reaching for again and again.