Birthday Balloons Card (LMMS Inspiration)

Hi everyone! :o)

It's Little Miss Muffet Stamps Inspiration Week and I made this square, CAS (clean and simple), Birthday Balloons Card. :o)

I made this card for my nephew Anej, my cousin's son, who celebrated his 5th birthday on Saturday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANEJ!!!  ♥ I'm soooo late with this card... I'm sure he won't mind. It's never too late for good wishes. :o)

To make this card, I was inspired with a card I shared a week ago, Robot Birthday Card. I went with similar design, same color scheme, same sentiment... I used different images, layout, card dimensions are different...

I used an adorable LMM's Forgotten Scraps 'Celebrate Balloons' rubber stamp. I stamped the image on a thick white watercolor paper, colored it in watercolor technique using Distress Inks and fussy cut it out, leaving thin border around the image. Then I glued the image on a 2 mm thick foam sheet scrap and fussy cut it again.

Then I stamped a sentiment on a white top panel. I used Create a Smile 'Mini Birthday' stamp set.

I drew a line frame with black fine liner to make my CAS card more interesting. To do so, I was inspired with STUNNING work by Faye Wynn-Jones of Stampin Fluffnstuff. Be sure to visit her blog, her coloring skills and stunning CAS designs will blow you away. Thank you for the inspiration Faye!! :o)

Lastly, I glued a 1 mm thick foam sheet square on the panel, glued it on a top folded square card base, glued the image on the card, embellished the card with two enamel dots and my card was finished. :o)

Card dimensions: 102 mm x 102 mm (4" x 4")

List of supplies:

• LMM's Forgotten Scraps 'Celebrate Balloons' rubber stamp
• Create a Smile 'Mini Birthday' mini stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• white watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks
• Tumbled Glass
• Hickory Smoke
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen F (fine) 0.6 mm
• Create a Smile 'Pretty Cool' enamel stickers (blue dot)
• Create a Smile 'Holly & Berry' enamel stickers (grey dot)
• foam sheet scraps, 2 mm thick
• foam sheet, 1 mm thick
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool (for drying)
• sciccors
• crafting needle
• water
• paper towels

I hope you liked my card for today and got inspired. For more inspiration, stop by the LMMS Challenge Blog. There's still time to join us in our current Challenge #155 - Anything Goes. There is a prize for one lucky winner: $10.00 Gift Voucher to the LMMS shop. We like to select couple other projects to highlight as well. :o)

I'm entering my card to following challenges:

Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge (if any) is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #227 - Make Your Mark

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Happy Little Stampers, Watercolour Challenge, February 2017, Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) The Cat's Pajamas, TCP Tuesday Challenge #330: Get in the Shape (use 2 or more geometric shapes on your creation)

Geometric shapes on my card:

square (card base, doodled frame, gift box)

rectangle (ribbon on gift box)

pentagram (stars on gift box)

circle (polka dot balloon, two enamel dots)

At the end of this post...
On January 7th, 2017 started I Love Math Challenge #4. A theme is Anything MATH Goes. I used four different geometrical shapes on my today's card and it  perfectly fits to the challenge. I'll link this card to the challenge post as an inspiration. I hope you'll join and share your MATH creations. The deadline is February 7th, 2017. For more information, jump over to the challenge post. :o)

Thank you for visiting and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka