Saturday 23 February 2008

Birthday balloons

I want to show people who have never stamped before that you don’t need a huge amount of equipment to get started. All you need is stamps, ink and paper – and you can get kitted out with Stampin’ Up! for less than £30.

This stamp set, Birthday Best, is perfect for new stampers as it covers lots of different occasions and includes a greeting.

To make this, and dozens of other cards, all you need is the stamps, some black ink, Whisper White cardstock and a pack of assorted Bold Brights cardstock.

I stamped a row of balloons and coloured them with Stampin’ Write markers – although you can colour with whatever you already have. I couldn’t resist highlighting the balloons with a white gel pen but, if you don’t have one, you could just leave a gap in the colouring.

I masked the greeting stamp with some scrap paper so that I inked just the part that reads “happy birthday”. This way you can get lots of mileage out of the one stamp which reads “happy birthday today – happy times all year”.

Stamps: Birthday Best (p34)
Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: Stampin’ Write Markers (p70), uni-ball®
Signo white gel pen (p82)

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11 comments:

  1. Good example of a simple yet effective card. TFS.

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  2. love the color scheme here - cute cute!

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  3. Great job on this card. I love the little birthday best set -- it's so very versatile!

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  4. love your little touch with the gel pen, great little tip! Very cute card!

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  5. Super cute - super simple - simply super. LOVE the little shadow you made on the side of the balloons with the white gel pen! I must remember that. CC

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  6. Lovely card so lovely and crisp!

    Samm
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  7. Excellent job. Love the colors.

    Teresa

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  8. So nice and simple. I love the way you alternated the height of the balloons.

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  9. This is an adorable card!! So simple, but great! I may have to use this idea...I hope I have a balloon stamp! Great blog...nice ideas..Kerilou

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  10. Loving the £30 kit - its fab!

    Rachel

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