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celebrating 10 years

Ten years of blogging and making challenges for likeminded crafters is to be celebrated. Double D is celebrating just that. Congratulations to both of you for the hard work you put into all the challenges you support.

Before I began, I had something other than this in mind, but I couldn’t find the set of dies I was looking for. In my search I found this very old and somewhat neglected layered die set from Spellbinders. As I was getting a bit frustrated in my search, I decided to use this and go with something different than what I had in my head. In the end I’m happy to have changed direction.

I cut the pieces I required once in gold but the rest in white CS. Using the gold as my base, I added the inked balloons that I had coloured using distress inks. I used some foam tape to lift them. Using a scrap piece of yellow and an EF from Gemini I dry embossed the piece. Then I carefully cut along one curved edge. Initially I was only going to use this section, but it didn’t look quite right so on impulse I laid down the other piece, which created a gap because of the cutting. This looked much better but the white gap was too stark so I added some blue ink before gluing down the yellow layers. Once I was happy with this I glued the balloon piece on top. The sentiment section was added with additional foam tape which creates a lot of dimension. After some debate I decided against adding an additional balloon or other embellishments as it looks busy enough as is.

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate you and your time.

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  5. Funny how what you had wanted turns into something so different but yet turns out perfectly anyhow like it was meant to be in the first place, love that!! It’s an awesome card and came together so well!! Thanks for joining our challenge at Double D and supporting us through all the years!

    Diane DD Co-Owner

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