Hi there and welcome to my blog! a quick post to share well in advance another card idea today made with Balloon Adventures Stamp Set and Ballon  Pop -Up Dies from Stampin' Up! products Available from January 4th -2017 in my Stampin' Up! SHOP HERE!

I water colour the background and applied a bokeh technique = I created circle windows on printing paper  with circle dies in different sizes to make a masks , then I placed the mask on  the  blue splattered background and applied white craft ink with a sponge.

When everything was dried. I secured 2 balloon die cuts with some stitches using my sewing machine and I made a hot air ballon using burlap ribbon. Voila! I'm feeling like in primary school making a rusty craft project but I kind of like it. What do you think?

Ok, so if you haven't seen my previous post I want to let you know that  I'll be sharing over 10 projects made with balloon Adventures Stamp Set and Balloon Pop - Up Thinlits dies by Stampin' Up! I  had the honour of being chosen as display stamper  for our last Stampin' Up! Convention and   I had the chance to put my hands on this products since September so that gave me a bit of time to work in advance.

I really hope to be able to inspire you to create something with this awesome tools!

So  make sure to pay me a visit and come back later, subscribe to my blog  or to my youtube channel here and plan ahead in purchasing these tools unique in the paper craft market. 

Click below to see the fist card I made with this tools and to enter a weekly creative challenge this week on Global Design Project

Thats all, I hope you enjoy the project today!

I have to admit that I'm not a balloon person but as  I was chosen to be display stamper for our last convention Stampin' Up! sent me some products to create card samples.  When the box with products arrived I saw the ballon dies and the stamps and I said to myself:  ho no....I'm in troubles!  The true is that I didn't know what I could do with them.  There was not ideas online  to use as reference, not instructions to use the new products (specially the dies).

Pool party, Peekaboo peach, Crushed Curry, Elegant Eggplant, Flirty Flamingo  were the ink colours I  used to stamp this card.  

I stamped  twice each ballon to get better images as this is  photopolymer stamp set and  sometimes is not easy to achieve a perfect stamped bold image .  Then to create  shadows I applied the "rock and roll technique",  I   just inked  the edges of the stamp and stamp over the images again with the same ink colour.  It was  easy to see through the stamps and aligned the images.

Using the Misti Stamping tool I stamped the big sentiment with Elegant Eggplant ink and  I stamped it over with clear Versamark ink to  apply clear embossing powder and make it glossy. 

I added colour to the founts using Tempting Tuorqoise Stampin' Write Marker.

I stamped some solid balloons in a scrap piece of whisper white cardstock and I die cut them later with the balloon dies in Balloon Pop-Up thinlits dies.  

Using Ballon Bouquet Punch I punched out balloons out of acetate and I paste them behind the ballon die cuts using Tombow glue.

To finish I used Foam Adhesive Stripes to paste the balloon die cuts on the front panel and also to give a little bit of dimension.

Don't ask me why but I decided to use Crushed Curry cardstock and a piece of Party Animal DSP behind the front panel .

And that's all, I hope you enjoy the card today!

Please simple click on the images below to see other card ideas made with the dies...