Hello crafty friends. I’ve been busy this week catching up on crafting goodies from while I was away and found time to play with the September stamps from Clarity’s Craft Club – this is another of the fun triangle people drawn by Barbara, with her birthday balloon. I’ve based my card on the layout from Atlantic Hearts, picking up the ‘anything goes’ option from Seize the Birthday.
I found a mop-up piece of card in my stash (I’d used one of Clarity’s 3.5″ squares of stencil card) and stamped the little balloon girl onto it with black Archival ink. I cleaned the stamp, then used low tack tape to mask off the image from the end of the balloon string, reinked it and added a second balloon. The third balloon went on in the same way and I shaded the image with Pergaliner pencils.
I added a mount of Indian Summer companion paper that I’d cut with the Film Strip doodle frame-it panel die. I embossed a frame onto a 6×6 card blank using one of the nested square embedders and sat the topper within it. I added one of the I Am Essential – Birthday sentiments and finished with highlights on the balloons using a Posca pen.
She certainly looks like she’s ready to enjoy her day, don’t you think?
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Oh this is so cute – lovely way to use the mop up card too x
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thanks!
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Love this! You are so creative!! Thanks for sharing at AHS!
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Super duper cute xx
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it’s a fun image x
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Such pretty colors! Love that blended background!
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thanks Vicki x
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Oh so cute! Love those little triangle people! Clarity sure has some fun stamps! 😉
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they certainly do!
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You are definitely the queen of square cards, Deborah. I think your clean and simple images look perfect on your background. My favorite part is how the pink fades away into the sky. Thanks for playing at Seize the Birthday.
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thank you so much Nancy x
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beauty in pink and I love how you faded it up the card front. Lovely frame too.
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Thanks Johanna. It was just from mopping up wet ink on my craft mat
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Very nice card. That would be fun to receive. Thanks for sharing at the AHSC
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What a darling scene you created. Love the filmstrip frame. Thanks for joining us at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.
sue n.
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I love this, so soft and pretty, just beautiful. Your little girl is absolutely adorable. Thanks for playing along with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (AHSC).
Brandi R.
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Lovely card, Deborah – simple but very effective. I love the layers of square framing. Thanks for playing along with us at Seize The Birthday.
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I’ve never heard of mop-up paper before. Is this a type of designer paper of is it a technique that you do to create a background, preventing ink from going to waste? Either way, it is a clever use of the paper with your stamped image. I’m impressed with the look of your colored pencils~ beautiful!
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Thanks so much. It’s just a piece of card that I used to clean ink from my craft mat – I don’t want to waste it!
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