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This is a bright and cheerful birthday card that your friends and family will love to receive. It uses stamping and shrink plastic as the main techniques.

1. Using your black Brilliance Archival Ink Pad, stamp the flower image onto the Bumblebee coloured Bazzill Basics card and allow to dry. Using coloured pencils colour in the image (I used orange and yellow pencils for the flower and green for the stem).

2. Leaving approximately 1cm around the flower, trim around the card into an oblong shape. Mount this onto the darker Sunshine colour of the Bazzill Basics Card using a permanent glue roller. Trim around the edges leaving a 5mm border. Leave to one side.

3. Using your black Brilliance Archival Ink Pad, stamp the flower stamp onto the shrink plastic and allow to dry. Using coloured pencils colour in the image (I used orange and yellow pencils for the flower and green for the stem). Carefully cut out the image using scissors. 

4. Following the instructions on the back of the shrink plastic packet, use a heat gun to 'shrink' your flower image. Repeat this process 3 times, so you end up with three plastic flowers.

5. Using your black Brilliance Archival Ink Pad, stamp the Happy Birthday image onto the shrink plastic and allow to dry. Using coloured pencils colour over the letters (I used an orange pencil).

6. Using scissors cut around the Happy Birthday stamp so that it resembles a tag shape. Leave enough space at the left hand end of the tag to punch a hole with a hand punch.

7. Use a heat gun to 'shrink' your Happy Birthday tag. Cut a 14mm length of 3mm yellow satin ribbon, fold it in half and push it through the hole of the tag. Loop it through itself and pull it tight. Trim the ends of the ribbon.

8. Mount the Happy Birthday tag onto the Bumblebee Bazzill Basics card using 2 glue dots. Trim around it with scissors leaving a 5mm border. Then mount the Happy Birthday tag onto the darker Sunshine Bazzill Basics card using 2 glue dots. Trim around it with scissors leaving a 5mm border. 

9. Cut a 38cm length of 15mm yellow satin ribbon. Using glue dots secure it around the card, about 2cms from the left hand edge of the card. Using glue dots position the three plastic flowers along the length of the ribbon.

10. Glue the back of your mounted card flower using a permanent glue roller and carefully position it to the left of the ribbon so that it has equal space around the edges and the top of the card.

11. Glue the back of your mounted happy birthday tag using a permanent glue roller and position it at an angle under the flower.

12. Glue in one of our inserts. And there you have it - a stunning card!