Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping With Friends February Hot Air Balloon Birthday

Welcome to the Stamping With Friends February Blog Hop as we celebrate birthdays. It is one of the most popular cards that people send and there are so many wonderful possibilities to explore with this theme. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you to create your own beautiful designs to send to family and friends.

For my birthday card today, I decided to showcase the Hot Air Balloon Bundle to show it's versatility. I paired it with the coordinating Lighter Than Air 6"x6" Designer Series Paper to create the balloon and used the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder to create the texture for the background layer. I love how bright and cheerful this card design looks and it is sure to help brighten someone's special day.

Products Used:

Hot Air Balloon Bundle (item #162755)

Perennial Postage Dies (item #162607)

Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder (item #154317)

Lighter Than Air 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #162747)

Tahitian Tide Cardstock (item #159261)

Flirty Flamingo Cardstock (item #141416)

Thick Basic White Cardstock (item #159229)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Tahitian Tide Classic Ink Pad (item #159210)

2022-2024 In Color Baker's Twine Pack (item #159195)

Basic Rhinestone Jewels (item #144220)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Mini Glue Dots (item #103683)

Measurements:

Thick Basic White Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Basic White Cardstock

5 Clouds die cut with the Hot Air Balloon Dies

Sentiment Label die cut with the Hot Air Balloon Dies

Tahitian Tide Cardstock

Card Front - die cut with the Perennial Postage Dies

Flirty Flamingo Cardstock

Banner Label die cut with the Hot Air Balloon Dies

Lighter Than Air Designer Series Paper

Balloon die cut with the Hot Air Balloon Dies

For my card design, I wanted to create a stepped up clean and simple birthday card. I love that the Hot Air Balloon Bundle had what I needed to create a fun design and I chose to use one of the designs from the Lighter Than Air Designer Series Paper to create the pattern for the balloon. The sentiment from the Hot Air Balloon stamp set fits perfectly on the coordinating die and made it easy to layer with the banner die. For the background, I chose to use the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder to add texture to the Tahitian Tide cardstock layer that I die cut out using the Perennial Postage Dies. I added some clouds to create the look of the sky and I love the contrast between the white clouds and the Tahitian Tide background. The banner label and basket for the balloon were die cut from Flirty Flamingo cardstock and I added a Tahitian Tide Baker's Twine bow and some Basic Rhinestones to finish off the design. Isn't this card so cute and fun? I think it would look great in a wide variety of colors so that you could personalize it to suit the person you are giving it to. Why not give it a try.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my birthday card will help inspire you to create your own beautiful designs to share with family and friends. Everyone deserves to receive a beautiful card on their birthday to make them feel special.

Please take a trip along our blog hop and visit the other Design Team members to see their amazing projects. Just click on the links in the Roll Call List below to visit their blogs. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

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