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Beautiful Balloons Fun-Fold 2023-2024 New Suite Peek

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Today’s card feature a fun fold with a peak at the Beautiful Balloons Suite, which will be available May 2nd in the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog. This will be a great set for all the graduation card that will be necessary come June.

Card Colors Include: Fresh Freesia, Gorgeous Grape, Coastal Cabana, and Granny Apple Green.

Create Fun Fold

  • Cut 2 standard card bases and score them.
  • Position card base #1 with the scored edge on the left.
  • Turn card base #2 so the scored edge is on the right
  • Add glue to the back of card base #2 and slip it inside card base #1.
    Make sure the edges are even and that the front cover of card base #1
    folds properly over card base #2.

Decorate Card

  • Adhere standard size layers to the card front. Hues of Happiness DSP first then Gold Celebration Specialty DSP on top.
  • Die cut a window in the front using a die from the Seasonal Labels Dies. 
  • Open cover and adhere a Basic White mat to the cover of the interior card base.
  • Die cut a bunch of balloon using the Beautiful Balloon Dies. Dry arranged a balloon bouquet on the cover of the inside card making sure some of the balloons pop through the cover window. Adhere the arrangement when saftisfied.
  • Stamp the exterior sentiment on a label. Adhere a pieces of Tear & Tape on back of the sentiment lable then zig zag Gold Shimmer Ribbon along the back. Add deminsionals to the back and adhere to front along right edge just below the window.
  • One the inside cover add bouquet strings to the balloon bouquet and stamp the sentiment.
  • On the inside stamp a large balloon in the upper right corner and and then stamp sentiment.

Embellish Card

  • Close card and add 3 white Classic Matte Dots to the balloons.
  • Add 3 Wild Wheat 2023-2025 In Color Dots to the Gold Celebrations SDSP.

Don't forget to decorate the envelope!

The envelope is the where the excitement of receiving
snail mail begins.

Envelope decoration include a piece of Hues of Happiness DSP adhered to the envelope flap and balloons stamped on the front lower left corner.

Other ways to decorate an envelope include:

  • Dry emboss the envelope flap.
  • Stamped the envelope flap, front lower left corner, or across the bottom.
  • Adhere DSP along the front left edge and/or across the bottom.
  • Die Cut a label out of DSP large enough to adhere a mailing label of the addressee on it and still see the design of the DSP peaking out around the edges of the mailing label.

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NOTE: The Beautiful Balloons Suite, which includes the Beautiful Balloons Bundle and Gold Celebrations Specialty Paper, and the 2023-2025 In Color Dots will be available May 2nd.

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