This is the same train paper from the previous post but this card is a lot more complicated and brings in most of the colors from it while still being very male oriented. It's much more complicated and time consuming to construct than the previous one but when you look at the quick one and the complicated one, which one would you buy if they were side by side in a store?
This card plays very heavily on geometric relationships. Every piece of paper attached to the front has been inked along the edge in brown to stress the shapes and lines.
The happy birthday and cupcake are from Stampin' Up!. If you have the whale punches, its easy to stamp this and then punch it out upside down. By that I mean you hold the punch in your hand so you are looking at the bottom of it and place the paper inside the punch upside down so you can see where the image is through the hole. I guess any circle punch you can turn upside and manage to squeeze closed or even a circle template would work but the big expensive whale punches are the fastest way to get it done when they fit in my opinion.
If geometry skills eluded you, the only way to get the circle to fit perfectly like it does is to cut a square (all 4 side are the same length) about a half an inch larger than the diameter of the circle. You get the green to overlap perfectly on all 4 sides by cutting another square with sides that about half an inch short than the diagonals in the green paper. If you miss geometry class, you can use the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the lengths you need.
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