Birthday Balloon

The new challenge this week on the DRS Designs Blog is all about the letter "B". Here's my challenge card. The qualifying elements I used are the color Blue, a Balloon, Bow, and  Brads.

This was pretty easy to make over all. The first thing I did was stamp the Giant Open Balloon (712P) with blue ink in the center of a white cardstock die cut. Then I reverse masked it and sponged the inside with blue ink. I stamped the Out of This World Birthday Greeting (267F) inside the balloon as shown.  I then masked the balloon and sponged blue ink around a cloud stencil to create the sky. I layered the finished die cut on blue cardstock and then again on white cardstock to complete my card front. Each corner was embellished with a blue brad and then I adhered it on a navy blue A2 cardstock base.  The final touch was to add a small blue and white twine bow to the base of the balloon.  

Hope you like it! 

Smiles,

Jennifer