Picture Book Panda

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS birthday card featuring the Simon Says Stamp Picture Book Panda die set.

To create the background, I used a technique shown by Laura Bassen in the Online Card Classes Background Check class; I repeatedly die cut the Simon Says Stamp Simple Numbers Dies (the set appears to be discontinued). I have the set of numbers still together, which makes this technique fairly straightforward.

I die-cut and assembled the panda and added him to a strip cut from the Lawn Fake Tan cardstock which I stamped and heat-embossed with a sentiment from the Birthday Messages set.

I cut the balloons with the Penny Black Uplifting dies from Lawn Fawn cardstock in Chili Red, Sunflower, and Blue Jay. I used the Taylored Expressions Balloon Strings die set to cut the strings. I tucked two of the balloon strings behind the sentiment strip and let the string from the largest balloon come in front.