Christmas Card Challenge - Balloons and Streamers

This week’s theme is normally more associated with birthdays than Christmas, so it was a bit of a challenge to incorporate balloons into a Christmas card.

I decided that traditional colours would look more Christmassy so I started with a Shaded Spruce card base and layered a Real Red DSP mat on top.

Next I took a piece of Whisper White and stamped the sentiment from the retired Balloon Adventures stamp set at the bottom in black, then randomly stamped the streamers over it using Bumblebee ink. I added this panel to the card base.

Onto a piece of scrap white, I stamped and punched the balloons in Shaded Spruce and Real Red and attached a piece of linen thread behind. I then stamped, coloured and punched Santa from the Cookie Cutter Christmas stamp set and attached Santa and the balloons to the front of the card using Dimensionals. 

I was pretty happy with the end result and I think Santa looks pretty happy too!

Thanks for reading,

Bec x

Balloon Adventures Card

I set myself a little target of using every single stamp set I own this year to make sure I don’t neglect any of them, so I am gradually working my way through my alphabetically ordered shelf. This week was the turn of Balloon Adventures.

This retired stamp set has a coordinating die set which can be used for making pop up cards but I find this a bit fiddly so I cut out the panel from Misty Moonlight cardstock and trimmed it to mat on Whisper White before adding it to the front of a Coastal Cabana card base.

I then took another piece of Whisper White and stamped three balloons in Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral and a gorgeous Grape. I punched these out using the balloon punch. Lastly I stamped the sentiment and die cut it with the coordinating die.

Finally I adhered all the pieces to the front of the card as shown.

This was not a quick card to make due to the numerous parts but it has turned out bright and cheerful and reminded me how much I like this set!

Thanks for reading,

Bec x