June Inspiration Station Challenge

How fun is this month’s inspiration photo?!? I love all the bright colors in this photo. I challenged myself to use these bright cheerful colors in a celebration card that was non birthday. I am super happy with how my project turned out. To check out the rest of the design team photos and to play along with the challenge, click the link below 🙂

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I’ll start my spiel about this project with a pro tip: whether or not you swatch your inks, I highly suggest making a swatch per project.

I then chose my color pallet from my scrap stash.

I made this a 5×7″ card because my envision for it was that it should have enough room for a bunch of balloons. I made the card base from a pale pink so the layers of color I planned to add would pop.

I wanted to make layers of texture and geometric shapes because I think, regardless of the colors or theme of a card, sticking to a structural base or background can make any aesthetic look sophisticated.

I cut a fuchsia layer of cardstock at 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and then measured out lime green triangles. To give the structure of the card some texture, I chose the Angled Mosaic 3D embossing folder from Altenew-my absolute favorite for subtle, sophisticated structure building. Before running them through, I laid the triangles in a way on the inside of the folder so the pattern of the folder would keep a consistent pattern on them. ran the triangles thru the 3D embossing folder from Altenew,

Using a scrap of the light pink paper from the card base, I laid it in the area between the two green triangles. This is where I was going to build up for the sentiment.

On top of the light pink layer, I measured out some white cardstock to stamp the sentiment on. I did make light pencil marks at the center of the white cardstock. This is so I can stamp the words and they will be centered on the front of the card once the white stirp is adhered.

Woo hoo it worked!

I trimmed the sentiment strips down then glued the entire panel to the face off the card.

I used scraps with coordinating ink to stamp balloons using Mini Delight sets from Altenew.

Thank the crafting gods for the invention of sticky mats! I laid the balloons face down on a sticky mat and using some festive bakers’ twine and regular cellophane tape, I attached strings. I left the string long, probably at least twice as long as the card so I could play with the strings and arrange them how I wanted.

I attached the balloons to the card face. A couple of them I used adhesive foam dots to attach so they were floating over the other that were glued flat to the card face. I then took a small piece of twine and tied a bow round the balloon strings. I set the bow firmly to the card face with a glue dot and trimmed the strings up.

I really am happy that this project came out exactly how I had envisioned it. I can’t wait to see your takes on this inspiration photo, so be sure click the link above to check out and play along with the challenge! Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!