Stamped the Hot Air Balloon onto white cardstock. Cut the Hot Air Balloon out of the Cloud scrapbook paper from Everyday Pop Up Cards Cricut cartridge and used the negative image to attach the stamped image to the back of. Trimmed the negative image to show a bit more of the stamped image. Used glitter to add sparkle to the Hot Air Balloon flowers in the basket. Used Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge for the Banner. Used couple layers of blue cardstock. Added some gems to bling up the Banner.
Photographed outside & it is a cloudy day this morn:
calligraphy: hand written sentiment
Cricut cartridges:
Birthday Bash Banner with Birds cut off
5" x 2" & 5 1/4" x 2 1/4"
Everyday Pop Up Cards 3 1/2" Hot Air Balloon Balloon
used negative image
glitter: purple, white, yellow
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
paper:
core'dinatioions cardstock - Blue Lighting & Tranquil Blue
Recollections Pastel cardstock - blue
the Paper Studio scrapbook paper Cloud Photo
ribbon: Spool O' Ribbon - 2 shades of blue
stamp: Inkadinkado rubber stamp - Hot Air Balloon
Entering this into the following challenges:
2 Sisters Ch91 Make It Girlie 5/12-18
Card Makin Mamas Ch45 May Flowers 5/11-24
Clearly i Stamp Ch51 What Goes Up, Must Come Down 5/4-17
Crafty Creations Ch169 Frame It lim2 2nd used negative die cut image as my frame 5/9-15
Crafty Ribbons Ch19 Flowers unlim 1st 5/10-23
Crafty Sentiments Mother's Day Ch unlim 2nd 5/8-13
Dilly Beans Bling Ch 5/11-17
Docerela Ch13 Mother's Day 5/11-23
Do You Stack Up DYSU71 Use A Flower lim3 1st 5/10-15
Especially Made Mother's Day w/ Ribbon Ch unlim 3rd 5/7-13
Going Grey with Scrap Creations CH Happy Mother's Day lim2 2nd 5/8-14
Hiding in My CraftRoom HIMCR45 Super Scraps Sat 5/12-18
Hooked on Crafts Ch20 Flowers unlim 7th entry 4/30-5/26
Hot Shot Ch8 Die Cuts unlim 1st 5/12-6/9
Jaihart Sundays are Lovely #9 Anything Goes unlim 15th 5/6-31
Just Keep On Creating Anything Goes unlim 16th 5/5-6/18
Card Makin Mamas Ch45 May Flowers 5/11-24
Clearly i Stamp Ch51 What Goes Up, Must Come Down 5/4-17
Crafty Creations Ch169 Frame It lim2 2nd used negative die cut image as my frame 5/9-15
Crafty Ribbons Ch19 Flowers unlim 1st 5/10-23
Crafty Sentiments Mother's Day Ch unlim 2nd 5/8-13
Dilly Beans Bling Ch 5/11-17
Docerela Ch13 Mother's Day 5/11-23
Do You Stack Up DYSU71 Use A Flower lim3 1st 5/10-15
Especially Made Mother's Day w/ Ribbon Ch unlim 3rd 5/7-13
Going Grey with Scrap Creations CH Happy Mother's Day lim2 2nd 5/8-14
Hiding in My CraftRoom HIMCR45 Super Scraps Sat 5/12-18
Hooked on Crafts Ch20 Flowers unlim 7th entry 4/30-5/26
Hot Shot Ch8 Die Cuts unlim 1st 5/12-6/9
Jaihart Sundays are Lovely #9 Anything Goes unlim 15th 5/6-31
Just Keep On Creating Anything Goes unlim 16th 5/5-6/18
One Stop Craft Challenge Monochromatic lim2 1st 5/12-18
Paper Craft Star Ch96 Use a stamp unlim 4th 5/9-14
Paper Pretties Mon Use Ribbon unlim 3rd 5/7-13
Party Time Tues PTT67 Mum's the Word lim2 2nd 5/8-15
Raise the Bar Ch104 Mother's Day Cards unlim 5/11-17
Ribbon Carousel RCC52 Word to your Mother unlim 2nd 5/8-14
Simon Says Stamp & Show Your Fav Stamp unlim 6th Inkadikado rubber stamp 5/7-13
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Sat Mother's Day unlim 1st 5/12-18Party Time Tues PTT67 Mum's the Word lim2 2nd 5/8-15
Raise the Bar Ch104 Mother's Day Cards unlim 5/11-17
Ribbon Carousel RCC52 Word to your Mother unlim 2nd 5/8-14
Simon Says Stamp & Show Your Fav Stamp unlim 6th Inkadikado rubber stamp 5/7-13
The Pink Elephant TPE147 All About Mom unlim 3rd 5/7-13
The Sisterhood of Crafters May Flowers lim3 1st 5/9-20
Tues Alchemy Ch13 Mother Dear lim 3 2nd 5/8-14
Tues Throwdown Ch97 Motherly Love unlim 2nd 5/8-14
Victorine Stamps Ch33 Flowers unlim 6th entry 4/30-
What a fun and creative card! Love all the detail and the sky paper is beautiful...perfect for the card!
ReplyDeleteCarolyn
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This card is soo pretty!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Thanks for join us at Tuesday Alchemy!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Victoria
Love that banner ... and how you used the ribbon on top of the balloon! Great card! Thanks for sharing at Made Especially For You!
ReplyDeleteLove this ... Such a happy card ... beautifully done ... thanks for playing along at Papercraft Star
ReplyDeleteWonderful creation, Melissa! It is always SO lovely to see you at Tuesday Alchemy AND I love that you visit us more than once. It make me feel all special inside :)
ReplyDeleteLots of joy,
Corrinne
Gorgeous card i love the image you've used. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Ribbons this time. luv gina xx
ReplyDeleteWow, what a light card... Makes us wanna fly... :-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck!!
And thank you for join us at Docerela Creations Mother's Day Challenge!
Hugs,
Tatiana - Docerela Creations DT member
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Very neat idea to actually photograph the sky and use it as the background. I like your hot air balloon stamp! Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp and Show. <3 Candy
ReplyDeleteSuper cute...love the clouds!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card - fantastic bp's. The sky just sets the balloon off so well!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at CMM's this week.
Best wishes, Sharon
So much fun! Love the hot air ballon. I would love to try that one day but I think I would change my mind at last minute. :0)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for joining us at Docerela Creations.
Catarina aka docerela
such a pretty card, the background paper is just perfect for it! thanks for playing along with us at mefy!
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet card. Thank you for sharing and joining us at Hooked on crafts.
ReplyDeleteHugs Jackie
What a clever way of creating the sky background. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Sentiments this week :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card, love the sky..Thanks for joining in with our challenge at CRAFTY RIBBONS x carol
ReplyDeleteVery cute creation! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood ‘MAY FLOWERS’ challenge and please come back again soon!
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DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Gorgeous card! Thanks for joining us at Crafty Sentiments.
ReplyDeletePinky
this is gorgeous!!
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Great cloudy paper and I love your balloon
ReplyDeleteFun card! Nice color!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Docerela Creations! DT Member Carri
Such a fun card, Melissa, love that stamped balloon. Thanks for joining us again this week for the Papercraft Star "Use a stamp" challenge.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty- I love the hot air balloon stamp you used!! :)Amy
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! Love the stamped image you used!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Tuesday Alchemy!
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Katya x
great card! the colors are wonderful! thanks for joining us again at tuesday alchemy!
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loveshappyhour
I loved ypur card. It's very beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Docerela Creations. DT Member Ana
Ana
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Hi Melissa thanks so much for joining my challenge for another week. Your card is stunning love the sky and the hot air balloon. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteWow! A lot of cool techniques to create this fab card! Well done! Thanks for joining us at DYSU.
ReplyDeleteAwsome Card! I like that you made cut out for your shape. Thanks for joining us at HIMCR DT AJ!
ReplyDeleteFab card, nice to see blue for a change,don't see that colour being used enough for Mother's day cards! So glad you joined us at Tuesday Alchemy. Hope you will be joining in with this week's challenge xx
ReplyDeleteI want to go up in that balloon. Thanks for joining us at Dilly Beans this week.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun card! Thanks so much for joining us at Raise the Bar this week!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Love the creative way you used the Cricut cut. thanks for joining us at Dilly Beans. xxD
ReplyDeleteHow fun!! Love that balloon. Thanks for joining us at Dilly Beans this week.
ReplyDeleteGreat card, love the cloud paper. Thanks for joining us this week at OSCC. Jo xxx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous monochrome card, thanks for joining in this weeks OSCC xx
ReplyDeleteWonderful card.Thank you for joining us at HSC for our Die Cuts Challenge.
ReplyDeleteHugs sarah x
I love this card, the hot air balloon with flowers looks really pretty against the blue sky.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing your creation at Anything goes, Just keep on creating, I hope you will continue to play along. Sorry about the the delay in leaving my comment I have been overseas and then got sick, I will be announcing the winners and will have the next challenge up asap :):)