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Balloon Celebration Birthday

Balloon celebration birthday card using Stampin' Up! UK products

I’m still totally on a watercolour kick!

I just cannot get enough of colouring, I actually used an Aqua painter on this card, something I don’t do all that often. I tend to reserve my Aqua painters for watercolour backgrounds as I prefer the control of a ‘real’ paintbrush for more detailed work, however I really wanted a watery effect on this card.

Balloon celebration birthday card using Stampin' Up! UK products

The colour combination here is Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron and Pool Party. After stamping the balloons from Balloon Celebration in Archival Basic Black ink I coloured the Calypso Coral balloons first, then the Mint Macaron ones – allowing one colour time to dry before painting the next. Saying that I didn’t leave the largest balloon long enough as you can see an element of ‘bleeding’ – where the ink runs and blends into the next ink colour.

Once the balloons were dry the card needed something extra and so I added a background of Pool Party in a watercolour wash to help ‘ground’ the balloons onto the card. The final touch was a hint of Wink of Stella in Clear on the Blushing Bride Balloons although my camera hasn’t picked this up at all! I’m still really struggling to get crisp photos, might have a play with the camera again this afternoon

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I will be closing this order on the 30th April 2016

Product List

Balloon Celebration Photopolymer Stamp Set

£23.00
Watercolor Paper

£4.50
Basic Black A4 Card Stock

£6.50
Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

£6.50
Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

£6.50
Aqua Painters

£15.50
Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

£7.25

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Congratulations Balloon Celebration

Stampin' Up! Uk Balloon Celebration Congratulations Card

There are so many great stamp sets in our catalogues that often I buy one because I love it, but then never get around to using all the stamps in the set! I really didn’t want that to happen to Balloon Celebration, a stamp set that I love so much I used it for my catalogue launch party back in January, but then never actually got around to using it again properly, until now.Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration

This stamp set has a heap of great little images, and is great for far more than just birthday card with balloons on! Kylie Burtucci made an awesome card using this set a few weeks ago, and I just knew I wanted to CASE it for a friends wedding anniversary card last week.

Stampin' Up! Uk Balloon Celebration Congratulations Card

Their wedding colours were white and a sort of soft champagne colour (something we don’t really have in our palette) so I opted for So Saffron instead.

The wedding card featured on my blog last year, I can’t believe its a year already since we were partying into the night at a Castle in County Durham, I also can’t believe that it is now almost 8 months since our wedding, crazy!

I had intended to get this card up a little sooner, as it does now feature some retired product, that gorgeous glitter tape – please Stampin’ Up! bring it back…..

Product List

Balloon Celebration Photopolymer Stamp Set

£23.00
So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
So Saffron A4 Card Stock

£6.50
Stampin' Dimensionals

£3.75

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Balloon Birthdays

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon birthday card

I’m making heaps of birthday cards at the moment – have you seen the awesome hashtag on social media? #imbringingbirthdaysback – its a great idea started by the lovely Shannon West from Stampin’ Up! home office in Utah, we don’t send enough birthday cards anymore, its just too easy to sent a birthday message when facebook reminds us its someone’s birthday – but I’m determined to get out of that habit! I am aiming to get myself organised and a stack of cards made this week so they are ready to write and send.

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon birthday card

This card really pops! Melon Mambo and Pink Pirouette – BOOM!

I’m loving the Balloon Bouquet punch, and used it lots here to get this fabulous balloons. I sponged one side of all the balloons to create the illusion of dimension and added them to a piece of Pink Pirouette card stock embossed with the decorative dots embossing folder.

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon Celebration Birthday card

I wasn’t sure about the ‘strings’ on these balloons, I’m still not sure if a Basic Grey or Smoky Slate marker might have been a better choice than black – never mind it is what it is. This card was made specially for a nursing home that I donate a lot of birthday cards to, they love a simple card without too much detail and bright coloured cards are loved by their residents with Dementia.

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I will be closing this order on the 23rd February 2016

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Balloon Celebration

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration

A slightly different card from me today, one without a sentiment (because I quite simply couldn’t decide what I wanted to say or where I wanted to put it!)

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration

I’ve been playing about with these balloons from Balloon Celebration for a couple of weeks, not coming up with anything I really loved. But the addition of the embossed background and dotted circle stamp on this one really won me over.

The background was a piece left over from my Brussels Swaps, I added the dotted circle stamp and some sponging in Soft Sky, before adding all the balloons. The balloons are stamped in Soft Sky and Rich Razzleberry, and punched out with the coordinating punch (got to love those bundles!).

I did think that the card was finished at this point, but the balloons appeared to just float in mid air, and looked a little odd – so I added some strings of Linen thread to ‘ground’ them a little. Strange to think that floating balloons looked so peculiar!

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I will be closing this order on the 30th January 2016

 

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