birthday balloon trip

Hello crafty friends and welcome to another Monday! Can you believe it’s nearly August already? I’m hoping summer returns soon – after the hottest June on record in the UK, we’ve had a fairly grey and miserable July. So here’s a card with a brighter day to end this month, using the SHAC hot air balloon stamp set from ClarityCrafts. I’ve taken inspiration from a few challenges for this one, starting with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches. I CASE’d Nancy’s card from Just Us Girls (taking the patterned top, the central band and the circle element), and finally picked up the theme from Seize the Birthday – I immediately thought of Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ when I looked at the hot air balloon!

I started with a piece of card trimed to fit a 7×7 card blank and stamped the hot air balloon onto it. I then covered the balloon with the pre-cut mask that comes with the set and brushed ‘mowed lawn’ Distress Oxide across Clarity’s ‘hills’ mask to form the ground, followed by ‘salvaged patina’ across the ‘clouds’ mask. I stamped the trees from the set into place and then removed the mask from the balloon

I used a waterbrush to add more of the ‘mowed lawn’ to the trees, together with a micron pen to fill in the fence. I then dug out my trusty Pergaliner pencils to colour the balloon, adding shading with a grey polychromo pencil on the folds of the balloon and around the outer edge.

I finished with one of the ‘occasions’ sentiments, ran a black Sharpie around the card edges and then attached it to a 5×7 card blank.

I’d intended to get the balloon stamped to look like it was floating above the trees, but it actually looks like it’s just about to take off – a happy accident!

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  3. Pretty, peaceful scene on your card! I really like your pastel theme and I can see Nancy’s layout in your design, too. Thanks for the visual tutorial on how you made it! So glad you played along with us at Just Us Girls this week!

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  8. Love the scene you’ve created Lynda, the balloon is beautifully coloured and positioned above the sentiment, gorgeous card and a great book theme too, Thankyou for playing along at Seize the Birthday, Cathy x

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