Hot Air Balloon Tag

Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend! It has been cold here, even with some snowfall, but spring should be back soon again.

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This week we have an Up In The Air theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us and don't forget to check out the project by our April guest designer Estelle Palumbo aka Atouscrap.

I made a hot air balloon tag, using one of my favorite older stamps by Tim Holtz. I just love seeing hot air balloons fly by. The balloon was colored with pencils this time, on a journal card. Coloring on a tinted and printed background is a really fun technique.

 

Start by stamping the balloon from Tim's Remnants set on one of his Journal Cards. 

I colored the balloon with Prismacolor pencils and used a white pencil to slightly lighten the area in the center of the different 'parts' while also blending the colors. Add shading on one side of the balloon. You will cover up some of the stamping, but don't worry about that, the stamped cross-hatches will act as a natural shadow.

Add highlights with a white gel pen.

Ink with Distress Ink and tear the bottom edge.

Sand the edges of a Tim Holtz Quote Chip Label and ink with Scorched Timber.

Distress the edges of the panel and ink a tag with blue and brown shades. Adhere the journal card to the tag. I also added three strips of Design Tape Trims. The smaller stamped sentiments come from Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery.

As you can see, the text in the backgrounds add texture to the tag and the crosshatches from the stamped impression makes that part of the balloon look darker and adds dimension.

Let the tag peek out at the bottom.

I tied the tag with fibers that have been in my stash for many years. Here is an example of using the same balloon stamp together with Clearly For Art Modeling Film. 

Join us this week in our Up In The Air challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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