Darling Dinos and Everyday Arches birthday card

 Well it's certainly getting busy around here! It was my grandson's 7th birthday,  it's half term so I have my 5 year old nice for 2 days while her mummy's at work and my annual weekend craft retreat is  just over a week away 😜🫣🤣.... Yup I'm a busy bunny for sure! The card I made for my grandson was themed rainbows 🌈 and his absolute favourite colour a shade of pink called flirty flamingo . The card was well recieved , which is always a bonus 😀 I used the amazing Everyday Arches dies to create a rainbow. It worked a treat and made enough elements to make 3 cards! So today's inspiration is using one of these pieces. As I still had the oh so cute Darling dinos still on the table I had to combine them.

The fun colours are bold and bright so I balanced that with a white card base and panel. The white clouds are die cuts from a set called Playing in the Rain.

The dino was stamped and coloured in green and orange the fussy cut out. This was really easy to cut up to the stamped edge so that's what I did for a change. Top tip if doing this type of fussy cutting take a marker in the same colour as you stamped the outline, in this case  black, and from the back run the side of the brush tip of the pen around the edges. This gives a great finish to your piece.

Before adhering the rainbow to the mat gentle draw a pencil line around the inside of the arch onto the panel. Remove the rainbow then stamp the balloons from the Darling Dinos set. I also stamped them onto the sticky edge of sticky notes. I then fussy cut the balloons from the sticky notes and used them as masks. First I stamped 3 balloons then masked them and stamped 2 more so that they appear to be behind the other balloons.  Then I masked all the balloons and used a blending tool to add a touch of light blue over the area. Next erase the pencil marks and masks. Colour your balloons and stamp the strings.

Now adhere the rainbow using 3d foam.  Then adhere the clouds and dino and a sentiment.  Once all are adhered adhere the panel to the card base and voila a fun bright birthday card sure to bring a smile 😃