I die cut the balloon and the bottom strip from some pretty and SPARKLY tie-die cs (I think it's Recollections - at Michales'), and also the 2 words. I planned where I was going to have the balloon and then cut the height of the card so that the balloon would go off the card, but the height of the overall card is still 5 1/2 inches. I cut 2 colors of the word happy so I could slightly offset them to get a 2 tone look. Multi-medium adhesive works great to adhere the twine in a couple of places so it doesn't move (dries clear).