Tunnel card featuring musical paper and an embossed birthday cake

For my fifth tunnel card I used this wonderful musical decorative paper!!!  I used an orangy paper on the inside for the tunnel which contrasted very nicely with the cards patterned inside.  You can check out my first card here.  I drew a birthday cake on the center fold of my tunnel and cut it out by hand.  I stamped my greeting (SU) on the inside of my card in black and then traced the shape of the cake on the patterned inside and watercoloured the flowers in yellow and oranges.  I could have used a larger bolder greeting considering the busy pattern I was stamping it onto.  I stamped a dotted circle (SU) in orange around my candle flame and then some flourishes (Sugarloaf) on the layers of the cake.  I used the cake to decorate the front of my card. Iembossed it with a musical embossing folder (CB) then cut off the candle and replaced it with an embossed (CB) blue cardstock one and then glued the paper candle to the back of it.  I used glitter gel pens to add colour and detail to the flame.  I added a blue strip to the bottom of the cake which I had trimmed with scallop decorative scissors.  I found this wonderful marbled paper that coordinated and used that as my background for the cake!!  I added the cake using 3D foam tape and then adhered this large element to my card front.   I used the same glittery gel pens to add some glow to my candle.  Really happy with how this one turned out.  I cannot make lots of card exactly the same hence the heart and the cake as openings for these last two cards.  It is really nice to use the "special" papers!!         Therese