Fresh candy shades, pretty papers and funky motifs are the secret to our delightful birthday set

What you need...

• Card, jade green
  Paper: scrapbooking, 12" x 12", The English Paper Company Designer range; white, pink, yellow
  Punch, music note
  Foam pads, 3-D

instructions

1. ZigZag Card - Fold jade green card, 10cm x 29cm, in half, then crease twice more to create the zigzag shape. Cover the bottom half with patterned paper.
   
   Tear a pink strip, and glue 1cm from the top of the greeting. Print out the words to the ‘Happy Birthday’ song, in green, on white paper. Trim carefully and mount along the pink strip.
   
   Punch out the music notes in yellow and fix to the top edge of the greeting using foam pads.

Scrapbooking paper, The English Paper Company. Visit http://www.englishpapercompany.co.uk for local stockist details.

Stamp, My Sentiments Exactly, Woodware Craft Collection. For stockist information, see http://www.woodware.co.uk

Sizzix machine and Sizzlit dies, http://www.sizzix.co.uk, 0870 600 0625

Yellow double-sided satin ribbon, 16p per metre, http://www.ribbonmoon.co.uk