Gatefold Balloon Bunch Birthday Card with the Balloon Festoon Bundle

Gate folds are a classic fun fold, especially if you're just getting into card making or are looking to advance your skills a little further. We loved decorating the card with the bright Beautiful Ordinary Life Designer Series Paper and the Balloon Festoon Bundle!

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Project Details & Inspiration

We started with a Coastal Cabana Cardstock gatefold base, burnishing each fold for a crisp crease, then finished off the inside with a Basic White Cardstock panel and a strip of Beautiful Ordinary Life Designer Series Paper along the edge. On the front, we layered two panels of Beautiful Ordinary Life Designer Series Paper onto Coastal Cabana Cardstock and adhered them across both flaps for our striped background.

For our balloon cluster, we stamped stars onto Coastal Cabana Cardstock and dots onto both Calypso Coral Cardstock and Petal Pink Cardstock, then die cut all three into balloons and layered them together across the flaps so they'd form one cohesive bunch, tucking Basic White Cardstock strings in along the bottom.

The sentiment was stamped in Coastal Cabana ink onto a strip of Basic White Cardstock, diagonally trimmed, and popped up over the balloons with Stampin' Dimensionals. To finish things off, we scattered three Pearls of Beauty across the front for the perfect final touch!

Supplies Used on This Project

We used a mix of classic Stampin’ Up! favorites and a few fun new releases to bring this project to life. From richly colored inks to perfectly coordinated paper and embellishments, every product helps you create professional-looking results with ease.

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