A Balloon Pop-Up card!

Here is another fun fold card that everyone joining me for my February monthly classes got to make.
It is a cool black & ivory card, using the new Balloon Pop-Up Thinlits Dies & the coordinating 'Balloon Adventures' stamp set!

The center of this card doesn't actually pop out.  I adhered it directly to the center of the card & decorated it.  

This card measures when folded a standard size card at 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".

Here it is as it is starting to open up!

I think this would be a great card for a birthday, retirement party or it would even make a great graduation card!  

Didn't it cool!!  Who wouldn't love getting a card like this!  I really like it!!

I used the Balloon Bouquet Punch & the Urban Underground DSP to decorate the Balloons in the center of the card.

The 'Lets Celebrate' words are photopolymer, so I curved them a little when I placed them onto my clear block.  That way I could stamp them on a 1" strip of Very Vanilla card stock & then punch them out using the Duet Banner Punch! 

How did I do that?  
Here are the supplies & the measurements I used to make this card!

Black Birthday Card- 
'Balloon Adventures'- #142823 (photopolymer only)= $26.00 Occasions Catalog- pg. 5
card stock:  
Black CS- #124267 (12)= $7.00- pg. 175 
*3x3;
*5 1/2 x 12- score at 1 3/4", 3 7/8", 8 1/8" & 10 1/4"
Very Vanilla- #101650 (40)-= $9.00- pg. 170       
*5 1/4 x 4; 
*2 3/4" strip;
*1" strip
designer paper: 
Urban Underground Specialty DSP- #142783= $13.00- Occasions Catalog- pg. 47 
*5 1/4 x 1 1/4 (2 of these)
ink:  Black Memento- #132708= $6.00- pg. 180
other:  Magnetic Platform- #130658= $40.00- pg. 190
Big Shot- #143263= $110.00- pg. 190
Balloon Pop-Up Thinlits Die- #142753= $33.00- Occasions Catalog- pg. 5
Layering Circles Framelits- #141705= $35.00- pg. 193
Balloon Bouquet Punch- #140609= $18.00- pg. 187
Duet Banner Punch- #141483= $18.00-pg. 186

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Yesterday I spent my morning working on Stampin' Up! bookwork.  And the rest of the afternoon I spent working on farm bookwork.  

Last night we went to Brayden's ballgame.  Afterwards we ate supper with Sarah, Nathan Brayden & Masen & Sarah's parents in Hedrick.

This morning Deke is off to powerwash all day.  And I'm off to work on bookwork all day/night!  

I hope you have a SUPER Sunday!

Happy Stamping!
Hugs!
SUSIE