Let’s Celebrate with Balloons and Simon Hurley’s new collection

Hi everyone, Ilina Crouse here, and I am thrilled to be on the Spellbinders blog. I always find myself in a need of Birthday card and you can never go wrong with Baloons!!! Which means you can never go wrong with Simon Hurley’s new collections with Spellbinders called Birthday bash. I am loving the mylar balloons and all of the coordinating products. It makes it really easy to combine products like the Mylar Balloons etched dies along with the Party Balloons 3D embossing folder and the Layered Party Ballons stencil. I had so much fun creating with all the products from Simon’s collection! For all of my cards, I tried to choose a consistent color palette of tide, peach and green color combinations or something in between.

3D Embossed Balloons card

For this card, I combined a few products, especially for the background. Start with embossing a piece of white cardstock using the Party Ballons 3D Embossing folder. Add ink using the Layered Party Balloons. Next die cut Mylar Balloons from the coordinating cardstock (I only used 3). Cut the panel to 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere the 3 ballons that you die cut. Next, foil the sentiments from the Birthday Sentiments glimmer plate collection and die-cut them using the coordinating dies. Assemble the panel and adhere to a top-folded white note card.

Balloons everywhere card

For this card, die-cut the balloons using the same color of cardstock as the previous card, but you will also need to die-cut the shadows for the balloons. Use slightly darker cardstock for these. Assemble all of the balloons and arrange to a piece of black cardstock. I loved how it looked, so I proceeded to adhere them to the black panel. Add white enamel dots. Foil sentiment (I used black foil) die cut and add one of them to the panel. Using foam tape adhere the panel to a white note card.

Let’s Party Card

For this card, you will also need 3 die-cut balloons using the same colors of cardstock as above. Assemble them and add gold mirror cardstock stings to them. Set aside. Using the Plaster embossing folder emboss Tide cardstock and cut to 4” x 5 ¼”.  Using a white pigment ink pad run across the panel to leave white residue on the raised parts. Set aside to dry completely, Die cut a white oval using the Essential Stylish Ovals Etched Dies. Adhere the balloons. Foil Let’s Party using pink/peach satin foil. Die cut. Assemble the panel and adhere to a top folded note card.

May Your Wishes Come True card

I tried to keep this card pretty simple. Start by embossing a piece of peach-colored cardstock using the Flourish embossing folder. Cut to 4 ¼” x 5 ¼” and add slightly darker ink to create a sort of ombre effect. Next using white pigment ink run across the raised parts. Set aside to dry. While the ink is drying use gold satin foil set of sentiments and die cut. Add a couple to the card and several gold half-back pearls. Adhere to the top folded white card.

Foiled Birthday card

Last but not least I am sharing a card where I used the Birthday Bash press plate to hot foil. To hotfoil the panel I used Van Gogh black watercolor paper. Foil more sentiments using black foil on white cardstock and die cut them using the coordinating die. Next, using shimmer watercolors watercolored the scene, cut and add a sentiment and a few embellishments to finish it off.

Other supplies

Heavyweight white cards stock top folded note cards, cardstock from my stash, Black ink pad, enamel dots, Van Gogh black cardstock, Unicorn White Pigment ink Thank you so much for stopping by and making it to the end. I hope you felt inspired and can’t wait to see what you all create using this collection. Feel free to tag me on Instagram at ilinacrouse.