Balloon Adventures and Pop-Ups

Hello, Crafters.

Yesterday
I had a play with the Balloon Adventures to find the answer to a
question I’ve had in my mind since I first saw the set!

The question is
how easy is it to adhere die cut and punched balloons to the pop-up
balloons, in particular the middle one?

The same question applies to
heat embossed sentiments on the banner.

I question this because both
need to have a fold going right through them.

The answer is that they
work surprising well!

I
punched the larger balloon using the Balloon Bouquet Punch and placed
it in position on the pop-up die cut, so I could place a mark top and
bottom where I needed it to fold.

I wouldn’t try to fold this freehand
as the fold would look untidy.

I placed it face down on my score board
and scored the line – it worked perfectly!

I
took the sentiment from the Best Bird Stamp Set and placed it face
down, in a slightly curved position, on to the die cut pop-up banner.

When I was happy the curve was about right, I placed a clear block onto
of it so I could pick it up for stamping without re-arranging the curve!

I
wiped over the banner with my Embossing Buddy, stamped the sentiment in
Versamark and heat embossed using the Copper Embossing Powder.

Although
the quality of my embossing wasn’t brilliant, I didn’t have any
problems with the embossing cracking, when I folded the card closed.

There’s
a stamp in the Balloon Adventres Stamp Set that looks as if it should
fit on the banner but I don’t think that’s how it was planned!

I say
that because, when the hand cut stamped banner is put onto the pop-up
banner, you can see two pieces of cardstock showing from beneath the
stamped banner.

If you compare photographs 6 and 7, you’ll see that on
photograph 7 I’ve cut the visible cardstock off but on the shaker card,
photograph 6, I’ve left it on.

Even
though cutting the bits off the pop-up improves the fit of the stamped
banner, the banner ends don’t reach the scored ends on the pop-up.
Whether that matters to you or not, really is a matter of choice!