Stampin' Up! Up, Up, & Away and I create a Birthday Card

I made this card last night before bed... yesterday I must have been in the right frame of mind to create... Everything just seemed to work... Here is the card I made

This is a Crumbcake base, with a piece of Baja Breeze, which I sponged to make clouds, and a piece of Old Olive, which I had stamped on using Short and Sweet (I've recently rediscovered this set in my collection.... can you tell?) I stamped my hot air balloons from Up, Up, & Away in Baja Breeze, Old Olive and Crumbcake and cut them out. I stamped the baskets on the sky and then attached the balloons. The ribbon is a scrap off of a shirt, and I think it works really well with this colour scheme :) The two little blue dots? they are buttons made using the Sweet Buttons Embossolit and then they were covered with some Crystal Effects. 

I am entering this into three challenges, the first is the Freshly Made Sketches,  which I love this week, it's such a versatile sketch! Next up is the Color Throwdown challenge, which I really liked as well... And finally is the Simon Says Stamp Buttons challenge.

Thanks for dropping round :)

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Stampin' Up! Sweet Buttons Embossolit and I create a fun note card

I have jumped back into my clean and simple cards this evening, this idea has been floating in my head since late last night....

This is a fairly basic card, it consists of a Basic Black base with Whisper White layered on top, I started by stamping the sentiment which is a cute one from KaiserCraft, then I drew a border using my Black Stampin' Write Marker... Then the Bigshot came into its own... I had a bunch of scraps in my scrap drawers and I ran each colour (Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Pacific Point, Rich Razzleberry, and Regal Rose) through the Bigshot using the Sweet Buttons Embossolit... it cuts and embosses at the same time, and is only available until the 31st of July, when the Mini Catalogue ends... 

I am entering this into two challenges, the first is the Less is More Circles challenge, and the second is the Colour Throwdown Rainbow Challenge. 

I think that's all I needed to tell you this evening, so until next time...

Happy Stamping!