Embossed birthday

I made this card for the Operation Write Home Our Daily Bread Designs challenge for January.  The challenge is to make a card using dry embossing.

I used this very old stencil by Sizzix to make the sentiment.  After embossing with the stencil and my Big Shot, I colored the sentiment by patting a Brilliance Rocket Red ink pad over the Happy Birthday.  I cut it out with a square Nestibility and cut the frame with a scalloped square Nestie.



Next, I embossed the patterned paper with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and adhered it to the red frame.  The balloons were punched with a paper punch and popped on foam pop dots with twine added for the string.  I tied the twine in a knot and glued it to the card with Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue.  The entire card was placed on a white base card.