Sunny is 5!

 Can't believe my youngest grandson is 5 years old. And, a funnier or sweeter little guy I've never known.

He began to get very interested in Harry Potter, although he has not seen the movies or read the books. However, his older brother, age 9, finished all books and has now seen all the movies. My daughter has made both of them their own wizard capes. So, that's why I made him this card for the occasion.

This card has a double-walled front inside of which are chibitronics lights. These are made to work by negative/positive copper tape that engages with a battery and the small triangle-shaped lights. The battery is made so that where the copper tape is there is a flap (either paper or acetate) that is set so the copper tape does not engage until you push down in that area. For more info, you can check out You Tube tutorials for chibitronics. In the photo you can see the larger glitter star is the place where you push down to engage the copper and light the stars up. I added silver vellum behind the stars so it diffuses the light a bit.

All of the writing and the sun is done with gold htv, which I pressed onto the cardstock in my heat press. Yes, you can use htv on paper! Looks like embossing.

After I had purchased an HP-related gift, which I wrapped with HP paper, he changed the theme of his birthday to Spidey (baby Spiderman, I guess?). So, I made him a t-shirt to wear at his birthday party.  I altered the Spidey image and  added the balloon with the "5" to go along with it.

I also designed some digital paper to wrap his other gift and the gift bag for the t-shirt.

And, that's it! 

Happy Birthday, Sunshine!