January 4, 2024 – Papirmølla

Hi, crafty friends, and happy new year! I thought it was about time I created something besides holiday cards, so today’s card is a very colorful, very happy birthday card, featuring a new die set from Kort & Godt.

I used the Big Balloons stencil from My Favorite Things and did a rainbow of balloons going across the card. Each balloon is a gradient color, from dark at the bottom right, to a lot lighter at the top left. I used sooooo many ink colors to achieve this look.

Blue balloon: Azurite and Ultramarine – both from Altenew

Turquoise balloon: Starlight, Tide Blue, Turquoise – all from Altenew

Green balloon: Shadow Creek, Grass Field – both from Altenew

Yellow balloon: Distress Ink Mustard Seed, Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade

Orange balloon: Simon Says Stamp Orange Peel, Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade

Red balloon: Heart Beat, Coral Bliss, Pink Pearl – all from Altenew

Pink balloon: My Favorite Things Poppin’ Pink, Distress Ink Picked Raspberry

Purple balloon: Deep Iris, Lavender Fields, Soft Lilac – all from Altenew

Once all the balloons were done, I drew string using a 0.35 black Copic multiliner.

I die cut the word bursdag from Gold Shine cardstock from My Favorite Things. This is a very dainty die cut, so I chose to put double sided adhesive (I used a sheet from Altenew) on the back of the cardstock before die cutting, which made everything easy once it came to assembly. I die cut the shadow layer from True Black cardstock from Papertrey Ink and used black foam tape to pop it up in the center of my card. I used some sticker strips to fill out my sentiment, and added those using foam tape as well, before finishing off with a little gold bling.