When my sister was over recently, she brought with her a number of stamp sets and left a few here for me to play with which she’ll pick up at Christmas. So it seemed a good idea to get some use out of them! One is Balloon Bash which is now retired but we have a few other balloon sets that could substitute if you, like me, don’t possess this one. I decided to try my hand at a sketch challenge over at Can You Case It?

Here’s the sketch

I decided on a sunny collection of colours – actually they are three of last year’s in colours, mossy meadow, hello honey and tangelo twist. They will retire next June so I’m trying to play with them a lot before that happens. I started with the top balloon in hello honey and then added the sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes (love this set) in mossy meadow. This gave me the placement for the tangelo twist and mossy meadow balloons although this is actually the third time I stamped the card. The first time I managed to get a finger tip in the mossy meadow inkpad and got smudges all over, the next time I wobbled. Third time’s the charm, right? Then I had to decide on mats and card bases – I think I tried all combinations before settling on a skinny mat of hello honey on a card base of tangelo twist. Very happy for a birthday. I lined the envelope using the envelope liner thinlits with some retired backgrounds DSP in hello honey. I find that envelope liners are a great way to use up retired DSP – and I’m keen to do so because I like the new patterns in the DSP stacks. I added it in the scrolling store below so that you can see how beautiful they are. I’m fairly certain that they’ll be on my next order…

Oops – when I went over to link up my card to the challenge site, I found that I missed the deadline and they closed yesterday. Oh well, I got a new card out of it!

See you tomorrow,

Liz