Birthday cards have a way of feeling same-same when you reach for the same elements every time. These hand-painted watercolor birthday cake print and cut designs give you something a little more unexpected to work with, and right now they are on sale in the Silhouette Design Store. Four designs, two icing colours, two topper options, and a range of card looks that show just how much the background does the heavy lifting.
All the printable backgrounds on the sample cards in this post are my own designs, also available in the Silhouette Design Store. The Happy Birthday banners are from the Doodled Happy Birthday Banners Sentiments set, which coordinates with all four cake designs. Keep reading to see each one in action, and find the full supplies list for every card shown.
About the Designs
The collection comes in four flavours: chocolate ganache or bright pink strawberry icing, each topped with either nine whimsical patterned rainbow candles or a glossy red cherry. Four combinations that suit different card moods and colour palettes. Within each icing colour, one version is topped with nine whimsical patterned candles in rainbow colours, and one is finished simply with a glossy red cherry. That gives you four quite different looks from the same basic cake shape, which makes them easy to mix and match across projects.
All four are sized large so you can use them at full size for a bold scrapbooking focal point or scale them down in Silhouette Studio® for smaller cards, tags, and layered projects.
The Cards
Birthday Cake with Chocolate Ganache and Candles
The chocolate ganache cake with candles sits beautifully against a pastel mixed-media background with Alice in Wonderland text layered through it. The cool blue, purple and pink tones in the background let the warm ganache and rainbow candles take centre stage without competition. Scattered rhinestones in mixed colours finish the card without overworking it.
The candles on this cake design are the same style as the Whimsical Patterned Birthday Candles, which are available separately if you want to use them as standalone elements on other projects.
Designs used in this card:
Birthday Cake with Chocolate Ganache and Cherry
The cherry version of the chocolate ganache cake shows how much range a single design can have across different backgrounds. The first card pairs it with a bold painted background in deep red, turquoise and purple, giving the card a rich, high-contrast look. The second combines an Alice Lavender Pink Pastel Background with a colourful splattered background in pinks, teals and muted tones, keeping things playful and detailed without being busy. The Third uses a soft speckled pink, red and turquoise mixed-media texture that brings a warmer, more delicate feel.
All three use a Doodled Happy Birthday Banner from the same set, which shows how versatile the banner design is across very different card styles.
Designs used in these cards:
Birthday Cake with Pink Icing and Candles
The pink icing cake with candles is shown here on a bold dark background in deep navy and magenta. The combination is striking and the bright pink icing reads really well against the darker tones. Two cards using the same design and the same background show how small changes in layout and embellishment placement give you slightly different results each time.
Designs used in this card:
Birthday Cake with Pink Icing and Cherry
The pink icing cherry cake is shown here on a painted background in deep plum, burgundy and teal. The berry tones in the background pick up the pink icing beautifully, and the red cherry provides just enough contrast at the top to anchor the design. A mix of pink, red and clear rhinestones scattered across the card keeps it feeling festive without overdoing it.
Designs used in this card:
About the Backgrounds
All the printable backgrounds used on the sample cards in this post are my own designs and are available in the Silhouette Design Store. Each is a print and cut design sized to fill a standard card front and works as a complete backdrop straight off the mat.
Backgrounds Used
- Aqua Lilac Wonderland Background
- Violet Red Turquoise Abstract Grunge Painted Monoprints Background
- Alice Lavender Pink Pastel Background
- Watercolor Blue Magenta Background
- Blue Teal Magenta Abstract Grunge Painted Monoprint Background
- Pink Blue Wine Abstract Grunge Painted Monoprint Background
The Happy Birthday Banners
The Happy Birthday banners on every card in this post come from one set that includes several banner styles. It is designed to sit comfortably alongside print and cut focal elements and scale to suit different card sizes in Silhouette Studio®.
On Sale Now
All four birthday cake designs are currently on sale in the Silhouette Design Store. If you have been thinking about adding birthday cake elements to your print and cut collection, now is a good time to grab them.
- Birthday Cake Chocolate Ganache Candles Print Cut (D-1348140)
- Birthday Cake Chocolate Ganache Cherry Print Cut (D-1348142)
- Birthday Cake Pink Icing Candles Print Cut (D-1348141)
- Birthday Cake Pink Icing Cherry Print Cut (D-1348143)
- Doodled Happy Birthday Banners Sentiments (D-375342)
- Whimsical Patterned Birthday Candles (D-1344631)
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