Hey, Friends! I get to hop in today, to share a project for The Greetery!
I wanted to put that cute new Hey Honeycomb balloon die to use and create a birthday balloon bouquet, pairing one of the Honeycomb Balls and a sentiment from Inflated Sentiments! Can we just talk about the color of that PINK honeycomb ball?!! Oh my word, I love it so much! I need that color in ink and card stock and all the things! LOL! And I love that it's such a fun -- unexpected -- pop of color here, since that same color isn't anywhere else on the card! It truly is as the stamp says...."birthday surprise inside"!
I used the Ticker Tape rubber stamp to stamp the background. I wanted a subtle pop....not a major contrast that might distract from the focal point. But also not as subtle as like a Versamark would be. To achieve this, I used a dark gray ink but stamped it off once first, before stamping it on the card base.
PRO TIP: Don't forget that you can create a variety of shades of one ink color! To lighten, stamp off first on scrap paper before stamping on your project. And to darken, stamp it multiple times with your misti stamping tool! This can save you on the amount of ink pads you actually need!
I added a sweet flower from the Hey Honeycomb Flower Power die set, to accent one balloon, so each of them has its own fun details....the sentiment on one, the flower on one, and the honeycomb ball on one!
PRO TIP: I even used one of the flower dies from the same Flower Power set, to create the leaves! I just cut a few of the petals apart and tucked them behind the flower and voila! Leaves!
A strip of glitter card stock at the bottom, upped the birthday fun factor, to finish things off!
And here it is opened up! How FUN is that?! Man, The Greetery just has the cutest and most clever designs!
Hope I've given you a bit of inspiration today! Get out those stamps and dies and have some fun, friends!
{Balloon Bouquet Card supplies -- click on thumbnails}
Thanks so much for spending a bit of your day with me!
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