string ornament rebellion

My Poppystamps String Ornament die is having an identity crisis.

Today it has turned upside down to make fun birthday balloons.

This card is 6"x6" and has lots of layers.

I love the cheery pattern of this paper from the Kaisercraft Fiesta 6.5" paper pad.

When I made the balloon panel it looked a bit stark all alone, so I started layering other colours to match the pattern of the paper.  There is a narrow 1mm border on each layer.

Here is a close up to show the dimension.  I have used two different thickenesses of foam dots, I layered one balloon with the thinnest, the next balloon with the thickest, the third balloon has them layered together, so they all sit at different heights.

What's that?

You're wondering how the "strings" can be so long?

Well I have to confess that the tallest balloon has had surgery.  I placed the orange balloon to be the highest but the string didn't reach the bottom of the panel, so I adhered it down, trimmed the end off another "string" and adhered it in line with it.  I placed the light pink balloon so that the string covered the join, so nobody will ever know ... except you and me.

My card design is based on a very old Becky Fleck CardMaps sketch from 2012.

Ingredients:

Poppystamps - String Ornament Craft Die

Paper Smooches - Birthday Words Dies

Kaisercraft - Fiesta paper pad

American Crafts - Textured Cardstock 100 sheet value pack

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive (to adhere matted layers)

Tombow Mono Multi Glue (to adhere sentiment & balloon strings)

Foam dots, different thicknesses (to adhere balloons)

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges

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Poppystamps Challenge

Pretty in Pink

   

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog
Simon Says: Anything Goes
  

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Crafty Gals Corner
Challenge #73 - Anything Goes


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