Birthday Balloons

There are so many reasons to celebrate those big milestone birthdays. I have lots of friends with 50th birthday celebrations this year so I’m loving the brand new birthday stamp collection from Visible Image. For this make I’ve teamed up the ‘Birthday Balloons’ stamp set and dies with a sentiment from the ‘Best Birthday Ever’ and ‘Grunge Birthday Words’ for the background.

To get started I sprayed a piece of white card with ‘Peacock Feathers’ and ‘Tumbled Glass’ distress spray stains. I then went around the edge of the card with ‘Peacock Feathers’ distress ink. The inky background was then spritzed with water before drying with a heat gun. To create the background I stamped the ‘Grunge Birthday Words’ using Versafine Clair ‘Warm Breeze’ blue ink. This was then heat embossed it with Wow Disco Ball embossing powder. Wow what sparkle!

On a separate piece of card I stamped some balloons from the ‘Birthday Balloons’ stamp set using ‘Versafine Clair ‘Charming Pink’, ‘Verdant’ and ‘Glamorous’ inks. The numbers were heat embossed with Wow superfine clear gloss embossing powder, but the others were covered in Ranger glossy accents. Next, the sentiment from the ‘Best Birthday Ever’ set was stamped in Versafine Clair ‘Nocturne’ ink, cut out and edged with ‘Peacock Feathers’ distress ink and backed onto a small piece of black card.

Finally, the background was mounted onto black card and a white deckled DL card blank. The balloons and sentiment were added using 3D mounts, some embroidery thread and a few glittery gems were added for further interest. What a fab way to wish a friend ‘Happy 50th Birthday’ this year.

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