Circle fun

Hi there! I'm popping in with my twofer circle cards for this month, using a couple of nested circle dies (Lifestyle Crafts).

Since I needed an anniversary card, I decided to go with a white embossed panel and to revisit a technique that I had used before on this Christmas card. But this time I used several circle rings instead of a snowflake inside my circle frame. I die cut the largest circle from the white panel as well as my light grey card base. I could not find a suitable sentiment stamp saying 'Happy Anniversary', so I used a 'Congratulations' stamp (Altenew) instead, which I heat embossed in liquid platinum ep onto a die cut banner. I also heat embossed a scrap of card stock, from which I die cut a heart.

For my second card, I die cut two of the circles from vellum to create a stencil to do some ink blending and then used the partial die cutting technique to die cut the top of my panel. For my third balloon, I first used the larger stencil circle to do my ink blending and then used the smaller circle die to die cut it. I embossed the smaller die cut vellum circle using an older embossing folder and adhered that to the bottom balloon, that I popped up using foam tape. 

I adhered my panel to an almost square card, with the fold hiding behind the balloons.

I'm playing at:

Twofer Card Challenge - #28 Circles/Bubbles

My birthday card is also playing at:

CAS Mix Up - Embossed vellum

(embossed vellum, stamping, die cutting, ink blending, heat embossing)

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

My anniversary card is also playing at:

HLS - Anything goes with dies

Watercooler Wednesday - #227 All about occasions