Birthday postcards

I told you that I was on a roll with postcards! These are really similar to the kitty postcards. 

As with the kitty cards I started with a sunprinted stencil image and hand dyed velvet for the background. 

Before I go into how I made these let just admit here that, yes, these would have been easier to simply stencil with paint than sunprint. But I was in sunprinting mood this summer so that's what happened. I could see stenciling these with different colors of paint for a totally different look.

These cards definitely needed something other than the cake slapped on the background. I started with ribbon and thought about yellow to highlight the candle flames. 
​But, this is pertty lame.

Angelina fibers seemed like a good idea but "blech"! 

There we go! I needed to stick with the cartoon nature of the cake image. I had a prefused piece of greenish yellow fabric and there was just enough to cut candlelight for all 10 cakes!

First I fused and stitched the candlelight and then fused and stitched the cake. They are finished off with a simple serged dark purple edge. 
​I love them.