Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

Hello, crafters. Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In this video, I am stamping simple Birthday cards using the Balloon Greetings stamp set. The idea for my project today is to stamp a balloon cluster or a balloon background using various colors of ink.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

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CARD DETAILS

I have my mini-MISTI stamping tool and white cardstock panel already placed inside the MISTI. I found I needed to double-stamp each balloon so using MISTI works well. I started with the color Melon, and stamped it onto my cardstock. Next, I cleaned the stamp using the stamp shammy and re-positioned it on my panel to stamp the next balloon. I wanted to overlap the images as must as possible, to create the illusion of some balloons being placed in the foreground and some in the background. The next ink color I used was Cheeky.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

The inks I am using today are the Simon Says Stamp Positively Saturated inks, they are very easy to clean off a stamp, and it is easy to go from one ink color to another as they don’t stain stamps. These are the perfect inks for this type of stamping. I picked 4 colors of ink for each background. I stamped 3 balloons in the bottom row and next 2 balloons in the row above it, and 2 more in the very top row. I also used Blush and Cantaloupe.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

With this smaller balloon, I didn’t fill the entire background, but I rather made a grouping of the balloons. I also used the bigger balloon image and stamped it in a similar way filling the background in, since that balloon is much bigger it worked well to fill the entire card background.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

You can change the colors to adapt the design to make a masculine card, just pick blues and greens for your balloons.

The next step is to add a sentiment to our backgrounds. I wanted to do heat embossing, gold for the feminine card and silver for the masculine card. To do heat embossing on a stamped background, I needed to make sure the background was bone dry. So, I used my heat tool to dry it.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

Next, I trimmed my panels to either 3 3/4 x 5” or 3 1/2 by 4 3/4”, I wanted the balloons to go outside the edge of my panels, so the size of the panel depended on the balloon placement. If the balloons were spread out, I only trimmed the panel to 3 3/4” x 5”, but if they were clustered tightly in the center, I had to trim the panel down a bit more.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

Next, I went back to my mini MISTI and used it to stamp the sentiment. Since these balloons are smaller, the sentiment doesn’t fit inside the balloon. So, I just have the sentiment in the center of the panel spanning across the balloons. I treated my panel with an anti-static powder tool, inked up the stamp with clear embossing ink, and stamped it. Next, I added Simon’s Antique Gold embossing powder and heat set it to melt it.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

I then stamped the balloon strings in the same way – there is one balloon string image in the set, but you can rotate it to have 2 different string designs on your card, and that’s what I did.

Next, I wanted to heat emboss a sub sentiment, and I wanted it embossed on colored cardstock, to make sure my paper would match the color of the stamped balloons I made my own cardstock by swiping the ink pad on the white cardstock panel. This gave me a piece of paper that matched the balloon stamping perfectly! I used my heat tool to dry the paper, tested it for dryness and once it was perfectly dry, I heat embossed a sub sentiment in gold embossing powder. Next, I used a banner die from my stash and cut it out in my Spellbinders Platinum 6 die-cutting machine.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

Next, I cut a piece of white fun foam, just slightly smaller than my stamped panel, I added double-sided tape to the foam and adhered it to the back of my stamped panel. This helped flatten the panel, as it warped slightly from all the heat that I applied to it, and it also added dimension to my card.

Simon Says Stamp | Balloon Greetings Birthday Cards. Video

I used a foam strip to pop up the heat-embossed sentiment strip. Next, I embellished the card with several colorful sequins – I picked pink and gold to match the color of the stamped balloons, I scattered them around the sentiment, which added some playful movement to the card, and finally, I used a gold pen and added some gold dots to the base of each balloon, this created the illusion of confetti inside the balloons, and it just helped pull the card together. I love the way it turned out!

Have fun stamping!

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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Comments3

  1. Love these card ideas and will be giving them a try! Thanks for sharing! Happy New Year! I hope and pray that 2023 will be a better year for you and for all of Ukraine.

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