Hi Everyone,
Hasn't the weather been just stunning this past week? I hope you are or have all had the chance to enjoy some of the wonderful sunshine!
I have a couple of cards to show you today which use the Balloon Celebration Stamp set and the Balloon Bouquet Punch.
If you're a follower of my blog, you might remember that these were a couple of my selected products I chose for my demonstrator starter kit. Well, now I can finally show you my first cards created with this set.
First up is a small 4 inch square card created for a friend's lovely young man's third birthday.
For this card, I stamped and punched out three balloons in different colours - in this case we have Sweet Sugarplum, Dapper Denim, and Emerald Envy from the 2016-2018 In Color collection. The balloon strings and bow were stamped straight onto the cardstock, I love the string which spells out "let us celebrate"! Once these were in place I could then fix the balloons to the ends of the strings using Stampin' Dimensionals to give them a bit of definition. I stamped the "Happy Birthday" greeting in Emerald Envy and I also added the "(and eat cake)" at the bottom of the card - I had been reliably informed that there would be a wonderful chocolate cake at the party, I can assure you, it did not disappoint!
Moving on, we have a very different image created using a couple of the non balloon stamps in this kit. When you put them together you can create this gorgeous dandelion with seeds blowing in the wind!
I CASE'd this design from a fellow Stampin' Up! independent demonstrator, Amie Nash, whose video I found on You Tube. I had no idea when I received this stamp set what these stamps could be used for so in my research I found her video where she used them to make a lovely mothers day card.
For my card, I used Sweet Sugarplum Cardstock for the surround. The image was stamped onto a white piece of card and stuck to the mount, which was then in turn stuck to the card blank - you can use your favourite or any of the Stampin' Up! adhesives for this.
To get the faded seeds I just inked up my stamp with Sweet Sugarplum, then stamped first onto a piece of scrap paper then again onto my card - this gives a shadow or paler image. I added some to the card blank at the top to make them look like they were being blown away, I also added some to the insert on the inside of the card, and to the envelope...I may have got a little stamp happy!
The "Happy Belated Birthday" and the "Make A Wish" sentiments used on this card are all from the Sweet Cupcake Stamp set. This stamp set has it's own set of Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies which you can use with the Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine. If you want to buy both the stamp set and the framelits together - why not buy them as a bundle before it retires on 31st May and save yourself 10%.
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