Balloon Celebration

The oldest son of a former colleague graduates from High School this week and Peter, my boss, suggested we take up a collection. We lost Chris to leukemia on Christmas day two years ago and we like to show that we have not forgotten him. He comes up in conversation a lot. So here’s a LARGE card using Balloon Celebration (so that the whole department can sign it) and three of the new in-colors that will be available for you to purchase next Friday – assuming that you haven’t already taken advantage of the early release to get the set of 5.

I folded a piece of blueberry bushel cardstock in half to create a card that is 5.5 by 8.5 inches. Hopefully that’s big enough! The base layer is very vanilla and I punched out balloons from lucky lipstick, blueberry bushel and call me clover. I love these new colours, they are so bright and cheerful and intensely coloured – nothing wishy washy here! I found that it’s easiest to add the bubbles before punching – especially when I was doing the silver heat embossing. For the congrats, I used the multipurpose adhesive sheets on some lucky lipstick before cutting out the sentiment – which is from the Sunshine wishes thinlits dies – which makes is SO easy to adhere. I added a mat of lucky lipstick and the card was complete. Now all I need to do it make an envelope – although it seems impossibly big, I just need a piece 11 by 11 inches and my envelope punch board.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.