In My Beautiful Balloon!

Another fabulous challenge from Cathy at the Moxie Fab blog! Did I have ANYTHING with hot air balloons? Of course not lol....so I had to come up with how to make the balloon. After looking at all these awesome stamps I really fell in love with the vintagey balloon stamps! It's like they are a big ball with a net or fabric sling over them...and that's when I found these yummy papers from Gartner Studios- Bon Voyage Postage Stamps and World Map! Perfect for a vintage hot air balloon card TOTALLY inspired by the photo from Pinterest Cathy posted!

So first I got to making the balloon. Hand drew it, cut it out, inked it up, and glued the layers together! Then I cut a little basket out of embossed kraft paper and inked that too to give it some more dimension! I sewed the basket to the balloon and then started the card! I had to use my Copics to color my ribbon since I had nothing that worked as it was, and colored my lace too! Lots of effort into this little card haha! Here it is...

A touch of pearls and a big button pieced this card together perfectly. Hope you guys like it!!