Transparent Birthday Balloons Card (LMMS Challenge #158)

Hi everyone! :o)

It's time for a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet Stamps Challenge Blog. It's #158, Anything Goes Challenge.

For this challenge I made this CAS (clean and simple), Transparent Birthday Balloons Card. :o)

This is my first ever transparent card. LOVE!!! :o)

To make this card I used an adorable LMM's Forgotten Scraps 'Celebrate Balloons' rubber stamp. :o)

The image is paper pieced.

I stamped the image four times on a Canson Mixed Media Paper. I colored pieces I needed in watercolor technique using Distress Inks and left one image uncolored. I fussy cut parts I needed and colored their edges with black marker.

Then I stamped the image one more time on a top folded acetate card base and left it dry for a while. I traced balloons' strings with a superfine black permanent pen and glued colored pieces over it. I glued uncolored pieces on inside the card base to hide lines and to look more pretty.

And here I stopped. I colored the image couple month ago, in November 2016. I liked it, but had no idea how to finish my card. I tried this and that and didn't like anything, so I left it in my "unfinished projects box" and waited for the right moment. It was this week. :o)

I drew a line frame with a fine black permanent pen, stamped sentiment 'happy birthday' from a Mama Elephant 'Starry Night' stamp set on the card and left it dry for an hour. Lastly, I embellished the card with matching enamel dots and my card was finished, after nearly 4 months. LOL :o)

Card dimensions: 90 mm x 129 mm (3 1/2" x 5 1/8")

List of supplies:

• LMM's Forgotten Scraps 'Celebrate Balloons' rubber stamp
• Mama Elephant 'Starry Night' stamp set (sentiment)
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks
• Wilted Violet
• Hickory Smoke
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen F (fine) 0.6 mm
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen (Marker) 68/46, Black
• UHU universal glue
• Create a Smile 'Frosty Fun' enamel stickers (violet)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• Sigma Rotary Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• 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. Join us in on Challenge #158. The challenge will last for two weeks. There is also 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 #232 - Make Your Mark

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

This is my 4th entry to this challenge.

3) Seize the Birthday, Anything Goes Birthday

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka