This week's Shining the Light Challenge is a sketch challenge - one of favorite kinds! I love word die cuts so I was very excited about ODBD's Happy Birthday Dies. I cut the words out twice - once in red and another in blue. I then glued them together, slightly off-setting them for a shadow effect. I then made a shaker element using Spellbinders Matting Basics A for my window. The paper inside the shaker is from ODBD's Patriotic Collection and that is where I got my color inspiration from. I used a white gel pen to give my balloon and letters a bit of a glare effect.