Bright and happy birthday

Hello crafting friends!

Have you still got your sunglasses on from yesterday's bright card? Oh good, because I stayed with the intense colours today :) Come and see:

I hope you're smiling right now because smiling is supposed to be contagious isn't it, and Mr Sunshine has got the biggest, fattest smile on his face! I used Paper Smooches' Sunny Side Up to make him, stamping the circle, adding rays all round it and then that big toothy grin inside. I coloured him with alcohol markers and fussy cut him.

I made masks out of sticky notes for the clouds so I was able to mask them off and stamp a cluster of them. They were given barely-there shadows with an alcohol marker and blender pen before being fussy cut. The final element was the pair of sunglasses - stamped, coloured, fussy cut and given a lovely shiny coat of Crystal Effects.

All these pieces were arranged on a turquoise textured card base with rounded bottom corners. The clouds were popped up on dimensionals and I added a block birthday greeting from Uniko.

CHALLENGES
Lots of my favourite challenges are doing their best to keep us cheerful, with The Paper Players looking for cards to Make You Smile, and Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge also going for a Smile theme. I'm also loitering around the drinks area at Watercooler Wednesday for an Anything Goes challenge :)

AND IN OTHER NEWS
We had a lovely games afternoon with the family yesterday afternoon. My grown up children are very good at finding fun online games and we use Zoom so that we can feel as if we've all gathered in the same room. We played Scribbl.io, which is a sort of online Pictionery, and a game which involved making up words and giving them dictionary definitions, which was a riot. I came last as usual. Everything was right in my world for a couple of hours :)

Did you find something fun to do at the weekend?

Hugs,