Birthday Balloons and a bonus!

Hey friends - hope you're enjoying your day! Crazy week last week so, other than yesterday's prescheduled post, I've been missing. More on that later... I watched Craft Roulette Episode #269 on replay this morning and quickly created a simple card for my 60th contribution:

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White;

Paper Studio A2 card (trimmed down);

various scraps

Stamp/Die - Hero Arts May 2025 Card Kit

Dies - Poppystamps Brilliant Birthday Balloons

Stencil - Lawn Fawn Cloudy

Other - White gel pen, black heavyweight thread;

Memento & Hero Arts inks; foam tape

Host Mary Gunn FUNN had Amanda Stevens (‪@PearBlossomPress‬), an owner of Pear Blossom Press (known for light-up elements) and her daughter Kelly as guests. As usual, the craft wheel was spun four times for the things we had to use:

I remembered to download my contribution banner which includes the parameters - so much easier than trying to grab a screen shot!

• Project - Square Card: Trimmed an A2 card down to a 4.25" square.
• Color - Butterfly(ies): Found on Gardens with Wings website.
• Element - Cloud(s)/Cloudy: Stenciled clouds for the background.
• Random -Tied: Tied strings on the balloons & tied together.

I started with an A2 card and cut the 5.5" side to 4.25" to create a square card. This way I can use an A2 envelope! Next, I stenciled a mat layer of white using LF clouds. I die cut some balloons and tied them with a heavyweight thread. Added white gel pen to each balloon. Stamped and die cut a sentiment from the May '25 Hero Arts kit. Assembled and done!

I'll add my card to Seize the Birthday #306 using the Anything Goes option.

For my bonus card, I added to my Christmas card stash! Remember me telling about Bellacon? I recently attended their online event & shared one card from it HERE. I created this card based on a sketch class taught by Meg Daves. 

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio A2 card;

scraps of white and glitter;

Hot Off the Press Cutsie Christmas Artful Card Kit

Dies - Memory Box Bello Joy;

AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set;

Simon Says Stamp EZ Strips Rectangles

Other - SSS EZ Strips Reverse Joy

The sketch is basically three horizontal elements. I used two EZ strips sentiments and a die cut JOY. The penguin is a bit of ephemera from the cutsie paper pack where I got the snowflake paper. Very quick and easy! I'll add my card to Merry Little Christmas #62 where Anything Goes (contribution #5).

So, Friday I went to a chorus friend's dance show and had to miss both Craft Roulette and the Spellbinders Weekender online sessions that night. Came home and watched one Weekender class and actually made that card (will share later with the others). Yesterday was spent with the Weekender classes. Loooong day and I was so tired (and hadn't done all the homework) that I didn't create the cards for the last two. Hopefully I can catch up and share those soon. Oh, and I signed up for the latest Online Card Class offering and didn't even start that yet - oops!

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by!