The Journey

I saw the Challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges, and the first thing I thought of was Hot Air Balloons, and Graphic 45, especially when they said Corset in the same breath. It took me a bit to compose this card, as I wanted those balloons to show up a bit more, but alas, they still are pretty much covered. However, I love the way this turned out.

I made a switch in the card, and I know this looks a lot like the previous one.  The slight difference are the stamped image and sentiment.  The challenge that I created this for required stamping on the image, and to my utter horror I realized I hadn't stamped anything on or for this card :(  Thank goodness I had just the perfect stamps for it, and they actually improved the look.  Yipppeeee


Challenges for this Card:

Fashionable Stamping Challenges-#11 Travel Around the World
Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge #166 Anything Goes

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

The other day I was watching a video by a famous papercrafter who was using this device to pop cards up.  It was made of something that looked a whole lot like the acetate that I save from my packaging.  SOOOO, I wondered if I couldn't make one of these.  Smoke rolled from my ears, sweat poured off my forhead, and you could smell rubber burning; Oh she must be thinking!!  Once the smoke cleared, I had an idea.  I used a 1/2 inch wide by 2 1/2 long piece of acetate, and used my Score Buddy to scored it a 1/2 inch increments.  I made this into a square, with a piece that overlapped, and voila, a pop-up device.  You can go do my instruction blog for the specific details of making one.

Challenges:
Basic Grey Challenge #58-Lost & Found