Flying Elephant

Hi and welcome!  It's my turn to host at Freshly Made Sketches this week  and I came up with a sketch that you can interpret in a few different ways.

I chose to use some hot air balloons and some partial die-cutting for my card.

I marked out on a panel of X-Press It cardstock where I wanted my two balloons to be and stamped them using my Misti.  After coloring with Copics, I did some partial die-cutting to cut around one half of each balloon and then used my craft knife to cut the straight lines.  That gave me two separate panels and a center panel, which I discarded.

Onto a white card base, I adhered a piece of pale blue Watercolor Wash patterned paper then popped up the two balloon panels with foam tape.  The sentiment was white-embossed onto black and adhered with liquid glue across the center.

I created a video showing the process which you can view below or over on YouTube.

Thanks for visiting.  Be sure to check out the fabulous cards created by the rest of the design team and I hope you'll give my sketch a go.

I'm linking this card up to MFT's color challenge as well.

Products used:

Stamps:  Up in the Air (MFT)

Ink:  Intense Black (SSS), Versamark

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It, Watercolor Wash (MFT)

Dies:  Up in the Air

Accessories:  White EP, Copics

Cheers

Karren