Colorful Birthday Greetings

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• SUPPLIES:
  • Stamp Sets:
    • Altenew Balloon Bunch and Dies
    • Altenew Super Script and Dies
  • Inks:
    • Altenew Warm Sunshine
    • Altenew Sea Glass
    • Altenew Pinkalicious
    • Altenew Dusk
    • Altenew Pink Diamond
    • Altenew Permanent Black
    • Spectrum Noir Crystal Clear Sparkle pen
  • Card Stock:
    • Basic Black
    • Neenah White
  • Other Supplies:
    • Foam tape
    • Glue
    • Rhinestones

Notice the “happy birthday” sentiments are stamped in several colors. This is a relatively simple pattern to create. Using a ruler and pencil, at the top left corner of the 5 1/8″ x 3 7/8″ card stock, draw a line on an angle similar to the angle seen here. Then measuring 1/2 inch down, draw another line. Continue this until the entire card panel is covered with lines every half inch. Starting at the top of the card panel, stamp “happy birthday” spaced evenly and using each of the 5 ink colors, repeating the process until the whole card front is covered. The order I used was: Warm Sunshine, Sea Glass, Pinkalicious, Dusk, and Pink Diamond. A few things to remember when stamping a background: stamp off the edges so the final product gives the appearance that it was cut from a larger piece of designed paper and keep your stamping spaced evenly. If you notice your colors start to group (by this I mean line after line the same colors are on top of each other), then either eliminate one color or bring in another color so this does not happen. And lastly, stamp so the words are staggered from line to line. You don’t want the “happy birthdays” stamped directly on top of each other. Once the ink is completely dry, erase the pencil lines.

The balloons are stamped using Altenew Pinkalicious Crisp Dye ink. I used this color for both the shadowing and main balloon which looked nice until I added the Spectrum Noir Crystal Clear sparkle ink. This blended the color too much and the shadow detail was lost. I felt it still looked good so I did not remake them, In the future I would use one shade darker for the shadowing layer of this stamp. The balloon strings are a polymer stamp so they can be shaped any way you want. I stamped them in Altenew Permanent Black. The stamped balloons were die cut. I also die cut the black shadow balloons. These black balloons were glued to the back of the stamped balloons. The left and right balloons are glued to the card panel. The middle balloon is popped up using foam tape.

The “celebrate” sentiment from the Altenew Super Scripts stamp set is stamped in Altenew Pinkalicious and cut out using the matching dies from Super Script. I also die cut a black “celebrate” to use as shadowing. The stamped “celebrate” is attached to the black “celebrate” with foam tape, which is then glued to the card panel.

Next, I added rhinestones, glued the colored panel to a piece of 5 1/4″ x 4″ black card stock. This panel was then popped up with foam tape and attached to the card panel.

Using several complimentary colors is a great way to create your own background paper. Choosing which colors to use can be done ‘by eye’, which is what I did. If you are new to color matching, using a color wheel will take away any guessing in color choice. I hope you enjoyed todays card. Thank you for visiting…

Aimee Pankau