Up, Up & Away Rainbow Birthday

What colours do you usually choose for masculine cards? 

I usually think of blues, greens or brown, but for 

today's card I used a cheery rainbow colour scheme.

 

I had a piece of white card stock sitting on my desk that 

I had started stamping with yellow polka dots and used it 

as my background for stenciling.

I needed to make a birthday card for my brother, 

and decided to start with an blue ombre look using 

one of the Modern Background stencils. 

 I cut the card front with Lawn Fawn's Stitched Rectangle and 

then sponged the edges with blue ink, before mounting it onto 

a card front with Blueberry Sky Gingham patterned paper.

I've always loved the hot air balloons from Up, Up & Away, 

so I die cut, stamped and coloured the three balloons 

using a rainbow colour scheme. 

I added two clouds to the design, layering 

one over and one under the balloons.

Sentiment Details

I hadn't planned how to incorporate a sentiment but 

knew I needed to fill in some space across the 

bottom portion of the card.  

A piece of white card stock was cut with one of the 

Photo Finishers die and then I heavily sponged 

Blueberry Sky ink along the edges to create a solid border. 

Happy Birthday (Get Lost) was stamped with Pure Poppy ink. 

I created a small circle panel by stamping a 

rainbow of colours onto white card stock 

and then cutting it with Inverted Scallop (Nestabilities). 

Circle punches were used to cut a blue and white circle 

to add onto the colourful background panel. 

A sentiment from Tiny Tags II was the perfect finishing touch.

Card Interior

Sentiments

Up, Up & Away

 Image

Clear Dollar Stamps: Rainbow

Supplies (PTI unless noted)

Stamps - Up, Up & Away, Get Lost, Tiny Tags II, Polka Dot Basics;
Clear Dollar Stamps: Rainbow

Inks - Pure Poppy, Harvest Gold, New Leaf, Blueberry Sky, 
Winter Wisteria, Spring Rain; Close To My Heart:Orange

Paper - Stamper's Select White, Blueberry Sky Gingham Patterned Paper

Dies - Up, Up & Away; Photo Finishers Die Collection; circles punches
Lawn Fawn:Stitched Rectangles; Nestiblities:Inverted Scallops; 

Other - Modern Stencils, Copic markers, 3-D foam dots

Thanks for visiting today.

Karen C.