birthday balloons...

Happy Thursday friends!!  A quick post sharing a card that I made for the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge (the challenge is over, but you can find it here).  I posted the card in the SSS flickr group yesterday afternoon, but this morning realized that it will work for the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge (ombre), as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (anything goes) so I will be posting it to both those challenges... YAY!!  I'm also adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday (use a stamp).The SSS flickr challenge was to use emboss resist so I flipped through my small collection of SSS stamp set and settled on the set called Celebrate.  The set has lots of different balloon and I used three for my card.  I didn't want any of the balloons to run into each other so I stamped a few in Versamark watermark ink, applied clear embossing powder and then stamped a few more.  It is hard to see watermark ink on white cardstock so doing my stamping this way helped me make sure I didn't overlap any balloons.  Once all the balloons were stamped and embossing powder applied I heat set everything.  I used Ranger Salty Ocean and Broken China distress inks for the background.  I applied Broken China over the majority of the card fading out toward the bottom.  Salty Ocean was applied only to the top of the piece to darken it up a bit.  Balloon strings were added using grey ink and then the sentiment was stamped.  I used the word happy from the SSS set Happy & Smile and the word birthday from the Celebrate set.   Happy was stamped in Salty Ocean and then birthday overstamped slightly in black ink.  A few clear sequins finished things off.  I added a strip of silver glitter cardstock down one side of my card base and then adhered the main panel.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; DCWV glitter cardstock; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Inks:  Ranger Distress ink, Memento Tuxedo Black and London Fog; Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins