Happy Inspiration!
Hi readers! Happy Sunday to you! I hope you’re having an awesome weekend! I am delighted to share a couple adorable cards from new guest designer to Simon, Amanda Korotkova!
Hello everyone! It’s Amanda here and I am so honored to be a guest at Simon Says Stamp blog today!
I want to show you two balloon themed cards I created using a few of my favorite SSS products.
To make this card, I first die cut a piece of medium gray cardstock using the larger rectangle from the Stitched rectangles dies and then die cut three balloons from the Celebration time wafer dies. I adhered three different colors of patterned paper to the back of the balloons and then carefully glued silver threads to their bottoms.
When I had that ready, I die cut three times the word “Happy” from the Happy Birthday craft dies and glued all of them using Zig two way glue to make it pop up a bit more from the background. I also created a banner where I embossed the word birthday in silver embossing powder and attached it to the card using 3D foam squares. Before adhering the card to a white card base, I added some sequins and white dots using my Gelly Roll pen.
For this card, I also die cut a frame and a piece of white cardstock with the Stitched Rectangles dies and a bunch of heart balloons from the Celebration time dies. Then, I white embossed three clouds from the Soaring for you stamp set and inked the cardstock with Hero Arts pastel blue ink and a mini-ink applicator (I know that’s not how you usually use these inks, but I didn’t have any other soft blue and it worked pretty well).
For the sentiment, I covered the word “love” and the little heart using some post-it tape and then embossed it with Ranger super fine detail silver embossing powder. I die cut the word Love from the Small Love You waffle die using silver glitter cardstock to complete the sentiment. To color the heart balloons, I used Copic markers (V12, V15 and V17) and then glued white threads to their backs before placing them on my card. I stamped the cute little bunny from Lawn Fawn’s Snow Day stamp set and colored it with Copics before fuzzy cutting it with my scissors.
Once I had all the elements, I adhered them to the card, added Wink of Stella Clear to the balloons and a little heart and silver sequin to a couple of them. To finish my card, I attached both pieces to a soft blue card base.
Wow, lovely cards! Congrats, Amanda! Besos
Love the cards, so adorable!! Thanks for the inspiration, such great ideas!
Love that bunny one.
Love these cards!! Thanks Amanda:)
Fab cards! I bookmarked this to come back and do something similar. Thanks for the inspiration!
So cute! Love the fun balloons and the bunny is adorable!
Me encantan Amanda!!!!
Felicidades!!!
Love the cards! Great ideas for me to try.
oh my…! all the cards are just gorgeous!
Love these cards! Thanks for sharing :)
What wonderful fun cards Amanda.
These are adorable!
So cute!!
Great cards. Love them especially the diecuts & colors
Two gorgeous cards, love the design and pop of zingy colours in the first and the softness of the felt die cuts in the second.
Congratulations Amanda! Your cards are very cute. =)
Gorgeous cards, love the balloon theme :)
I love when you reseason/repurpose things for something other than the obvious use.
These two cards are so adorable! I love the soft blue in the second card. Thanks for sharing!
Amanda’s cards are adorable. I especially love the birthday balloon card.
Great cards
Happy cards! I especially like the second one, so adorable! TFS
Beautiful cards, so cute! x
I love the cards, the balloons are super fun and cute!!
Who wouldn’t want to receive a card with that adorable little bunny. All the cards today are absolutely adorable.
Such pretty cards! I love them. i follow the blog by email.
Both these cards are completely adorable!
Beautiful cards Amanda. Love the cut out of the balloons. It looks so sweet!
Both of these cards are beautiful!! Amazing work and I love your designs. Great ways to use the balloon dies. Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
I like the colors on both balloon cards.
Such sweet cards! The pastel colors are so soothing.
These are so sweet! I love the way you used the balloons. Both are so different yet so cute and beautifully done!!
Nina-Marie :)
ADORABLE cards, lots of ideas with these sets, thanks!
These are so sweet. Look at that bunny! Too cute. Hugz
Such pretty cards, love that happy die!
These cute balloon cards are very popular right now and now I have a few more to use as inspiration. Love them all.
awesome cards!
Adorable balloon cards. . . think I need those balloon dies.
Congratulations, Amanda. Your work is so neat and professional. Your cards looks great.
Delightful cards!
Definitely “Happy Inspiration”!
These are such cute card, love!
Beautiful cards. Love the silver strings on the balloons.
The key word with these cards is “Happy”. They are great, I especially love the purple balloons.
Beautiful cards!
Super cute cards!
Those cards are so cute. Love those balloons.
These cards just make me happy
Awesome birthday cards! Love the balloons!
Both your cards are just adorable ..love the colors !!