How To Make 5 Cards With New Release!

The cool thing about this is that you can make several cards at once. This is because you can use the leftovers from the first card for more.

Blending For our New Release Cards

To begin this card we’ll create a patterned background for our balloons. I am doing so with a little layered stencil that was part of Spellbinders Advent kit last Christmas. But, you can create this kind of background with any polka dot stencils. Check your stash and if you don’t find one there is a suggestion for one down in the supplies list.

Tape the stencil to a white A2 (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2′”) piece of cardstock. And then, using mini blending brushes create a rainbow with smaller dots beginning with yellow right down the center of the panel. For example, you should blend almost all the way to the edges leaving only about 3/4″ on both sides.

We do this because we’re going to create a couple of colors by blending. White off your stencil with a paper towel. And then, blend red over the small dots on the left side of the panel. Be sure to overlap some of where we had blended yellow dots. And, this will create orange. Next, we’ll do the same thing with our blue ink on the right side of the panel. But, this time we will create green with our blending.

Now, we’ll blend pink ink over all of the bigger dots. We’ll repeat the whole process so that we end up with two patterned card panels. And then, we’ll clean our stencils and put our brushes up.

Die-cutting For Our New Release Cards

Next, we’ll do our die-cutting. We’re going to create a rainbow with our balloons. Using our Stitched Die of the Month, Stitched Balloon Card Front, we’re going to die-cut our blended panel, and then we’ll also cut it from the following:

• Red – Poppy Field
• Yellow – Saffron
• Purple – Royal Amethyst
• Green – Peridot
• Blue – Island Blue
• Pink – Fruit Punch
• White

Keep everything, because we’ll use almost all of the pieces and parts for other cards.

While we’ve got our die-cutting machine out, let’s go ahead and cut out the sentiment too. And, we might as well cut them for all of the cards. We’ll need:

• 2 Purple – Royal Amethyst – Happy Birthday
• 1 Black – Onyx – Happy Birthday
• 1 Pink – Fruit Punch – Happy Birthday
• 2 White Shadows
• 1 Silver Glitter Foam Sheet Shadow

Assembly and Finishing

We’re going to use liquid glue to fasten the patterned paper die-cut to a white A2 card base. And to demonstrate, we want to make sure that there is glue on either side of the “strings” and around each of the balloon cutouts as well as along all four edges of the cardstock.

Next, we’re going to add dots of glue along the string lines that the die cut. And then, we’ll add silver metallic threads for the strings.

Layer the yellow and green balloons with a white balloon and glue them together with liquid glue. And, now we can attach all the balloons, inlaying four into the cutouts. And, overlaying the ones that we layered.

All that is left is to add liquid glue to the back of one of the purple sentiments and attach it to the card front. And, we’re done.

However, we can make four more cards with our leftovers.

Purple and Pink Cards: 2 and 3 of 5 Cards