Both Seize the Birthday Challenge and AAA Birthday Challenge are calling for balloons. I needed two birthday cards for kids this month so I pulled out a die set for one, and a favorite stamp set for the other.
For the first card I die cut some brightly colored balloons with one of the dies from Simon Says Balloons, all cut from scraps.
Once I knew where I wanted the balloons, I stamped some strings from Papertrey Ink Birthday Balloons and Birthday Strings and then attached the balloons. Before adding them to the card front I adhered a piece of striped paper with many of the same colors in the balloons. I think this might be from a My Favorite Things paper pad, but it was filed away under stripes in my 6X6 patterned paper box.
It’s interesting that the orange balloon appears a bit more red in the photo than IRL. If I’d thought of that possibility I wouldn’t have put them next to one another.
I love the critters on the next card, and added a heart-shaped balloon for the penguin to hold.
All the critters were colored with Copic markers as well as the sentiment where I used two shades of blue for an ombre effect. I also added two balloons to the front of the envelope.
The final touch was adding some Nuvo Crystal glaze to the balloon for some dimension and shine.
