Birthday Card - Part 2

This is the process of how I designed my birthday card.

I used the below design as reference and also the text for the inside of the card.


Firstly I lay the background of my card with radial gradient and placed 3 rounded rectangle in the middle of the page and filled it with my desired colours..




I used paint brush tool and charcoal brush to paint the outline of the sqaures with matching colour.


Then I placed the reference cake picture in the purple square with adjusted opacity to be traced. I traced the cake with pen tool.




After tracing, I filled the colour and designs.. using gradient and ellipse tool to do some decorations on the cake. I used paintbrush tool to write the orange happy birthday on the cake. The strawberries are drawn with paintbrush tool. The four petals flowers on the pink colour cake is made with ellipse tool - effect - distort & transform - pucker & bloat - adjust to 54%.






Then I use pen tool to draw a candle on the cake and filled in the desired colour..




The "Happy Birthday" is done by Type Tool and I copy another set of the text and put some effect on it. effect - artistic - dry brush - pallete knife. Then, I drag the original text in front of the adjusted one to make it look shadowy.


On the left side of the cake, I drew some balloons with pen tool. and put different shades of colour on it to make it look glossy. I drew the string with paintbrush tool.



On the right side of the cake, I drew a big present. using 3D effect - extrude & bevel, I make the box. I adjust the desired extrude depth and perspective. The object - expand appearance so I can make the different sides into different colours. I put some ribbons over the box. I adjust the ribbon's opacity to 66.


The hearts and spirals in the back ground of the card is made with effect - artistic - dry brush - rough pastels.

The outside design of the card is finished.


Then,the other half of the card...the inside...

First of all, like the front page of the card, I put some light pink radial gradient on the page and I used type tool to type the greetings in the middle of the page. The font size and type is changed to my desire size and type. I insert the hearts and spirals (the same as the front page) to make it link to each other(front and inside page of the card).

Then it's finished.

The whole card....