Blue balloons for CAS Colours & Sketches #586

Hello there! It’s time for our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, where Rachel has given us a lovely tonal palette to play with. I thought it would work well with the SHAC Balloons stamps for a very simple birthday card (I have to confess, these have been sitting on my desk for a while now and have only just come out to play!).

I cut a topper of premium card slightly smaller than an A6 card blank and positioned the second and third largest balloons on it, so I could pick them up with my mega mount. Using Spot-on Sponges, I blended ‘broken china’ and ‘chipped sapphire’ Distress Oxides onto the stamps and stamped them into place.

Having then covered my balloons with the pre-cut masks that come with the stamps, I could then ink up the largest balloon in the same way and sit that between the first two. Without adding any more in to it, I gently smoothed the Spot-on Sponge with ‘chipped sapphire’ across from the masks onto the large balloon, to add shade behind the two smaller ones.

I added one of the sentiments from the Dotted Blooms stamps in ‘shadow grey’ Archival ink and drew the strings in for the other balloons with a grey Perga Colour pen. I then simply attached the topper to my A6 card blank.

This will be winging it’s way to a friend for their birthday later this week – and I think I may make some more of these in other colours! Thanks should go to AAA Cards for the inspiration from their layout, and I’m also going to add this to the galleries at Cardz4Galz, who want to see circles, and at Simply Clean & Simple for their option of ‘things that fly’ (which is what balloons do, isn’t it?)

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16 thoughts on “Blue balloons for CAS Colours & Sketches #586”

  6. Beautifully CAS Deborah and those balloons are coloured so beautifully – they look almost iridescent. You’re so right about balloons – they work in all colours and for so many occasions too don’t they? A great standby for sure.

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  8. This is such a standout design, Deborah! I love that NBUS balloon set and so appreciate the work you put into explaining how you got the shading and coloring of them to be mwah perfection! Great job drawing the strings, too! Hugs, Darnell

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  10. Looks like balloons were the order of the day for this challenge! Love the way you used the colors for the shading and I have to say I’m very jealous of pre-cut masks for your stamps!! I would love that! TFS!

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