A Floating Turtle and Balloons for a fun Birthday Card!

A Floating Turtle and Balloons for a fun Birthday Card!

Hello everyone! December has arrived and we are so excited. We have been a bit busy but we are ready for the Holidays and spending time with Family and Friends! We are so glad you stopped by! If you like our blog & posts we would love for you to give our blog a follow!

Let the crafting continue... I am joining the Double Trouble Challenge. We hope you will check out their challenge and join us! Links to the Double Trouble challenge and a few others I am joining are near the end of this blog post! This card was made for my mom! It was her birthday the other day and I wanted to make her a fun birthday card... and yes! I gave her more crafting supplies to play with! haha! 

Here is the card:

Products I used:

• Spellbinders Birthday Bliss Die Set
• Jaded Blossom Sky is the Limit stamp and die set (inside of card)
• Echo Park Paper Away We Go, Flora no. 6, Life is Beautiful and Year in Review 6x6 Paper
• Tim Holtz Peeled Paint and Rustic Wilderness Distress inks
• Various colored cardstock, glitter, designer paper, and embellishments from personal crafting stash
• Various colored pencils (Soucolor) and fine-line markers

Here are some more photos to show some close-up details of this card:

The Double Trouble Recipe and my Recipe:

    3 of Something: 3 Images - Balloons, Turtle and Sentiment

    2 of Anything: 2 Layers - Card base and layered paper

    1 of Everything else: 1 String

    Twisted Sister: 1 silver string/bow and 1 die cut bow for the balloons

The Art Nudge Challenge Inspiration Photo Set: 

......and that's it! 

Happy crafting to you all! We hope you feel inspired to create something and try something new! 

 

I am joining the following challenge(s):

Art Nudge Challenge: December 2025 (ARTNUDGE 1225C)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting Challenge: Challenge #206 "2025 Wrap It Up" with 3-2-1 Recipe "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing"

Simon Says Stamp Wednsday Challenge: Use Dies in DieCember® featuring Simon Says Stamp!

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge: Dazzling Die Cuts

Pearly Sparkles Challenge: Challenge 114 - Silver Bells (Include Something Silver) - The silver Balloon!

We hope you will join us!

 

"Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." - Lauren Hutton

 

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See you on the next post!  

Sabra & Holly
The Crafting Duo