You can never have too many birthday balloons. Am I right?!? Well, I don’t think so. So when I had the chance to ink up the adorable Mama Elephant It’s Poppin, I had to pair it with my favorite Spellbinders Floating Balloons 3D embossing folder. It’s a match made in heaven.
To start, I actually stamped all of the images in It’s Poppin and colored them all with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and stashed the other two for later on.
I took a piece of white cardstock and embossed it with the Spellbinders Floating Balloons 3D embossing folder, then placed the panel in my splatter box and went to town with distress oxide sprays. I let the panel dry, splattered it with water, let that dry and then thought it better to run the panel through the embossing folder again. It did make a difference in the balloons standing out.
***So, suggestion to spray your panel with color first, let it dry completely and then emboss it.***
With that done, I splattered the panel with white paint and then trimmed it down to 4×5.5 inches and popped it up on a white card base. I added a couple strips of washi tape to the bottom edge. Then I cut the Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday three times and glued the layers together before gluing them to the card front. Last, I added the image with foam squares.
For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the kitties’ eyes and noses and stardust Stickles to the stars in the balloon.
Products used:
Mama Elephant It’s Poppin stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday die
Spellbinders Floating Balloons 3D embossing folder
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide Sprays – wild honey, abandoned coral and wilted violet
Sakura Gelly Roll black glaze pen
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