Friday, January 27, 2012

Hot Air Balloon Heart

Amour c'est magnifique! So true, so true! I love Love! Valentine's Day is a fun day to show love to your peeps, but actually we should show it everyday. Here is a card that can be used at any time of year and not just Valentine's. All the stamped images are from the Artistic Outpost's Paris Exposition stamp set. I love all the images on this set, but I really have a thing about hot air balloons. They have always fascinated me. I think the two balloons eluding to a heart works well here, even though it's not perfectly shaped. I had a super fun time dressing up Madame. She was very cooperative and seemed to enjoy modeling for me. She finally choose the vintage, zebra printed, mink stole with diamond brooch brad. And, as she has the perfect shaped head for millinery, she had to have this black burlap cloche because it donned a huge, handmade, red grosgrain rose, even Coco would approve!

The balloons were stamped on transparency with StazOn and colored in with permanent marker. The Eiffel Tower is stamped with Distress Ink and crackled over, along with the Amour. All the background images on the craft paper are Distress Ink stamped and heat embossed with clear UTEE. Watercolor pencils were used on Madame and the sky, and all of Madame's make-up was done with Glaze Pens, as well as her gorgeous blue eyes. Distress Ink borders all of the cardstock. I created the rose by tying lose knots in the ribbon and gathering it into a circle, finally adhering it at the bottom.



  

I am entering this card in Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stamper Challenge for "my eyes adored you". Don't you think her eyes are looking at someone adoringly? Oo la la!!! Hels is also sharing the love with some blog candy as she celebrates the Sunday Stamper's 4th birthday...so cool!!!

Supplies:
Uchida Marvy: Pigmented Artist Markers (red)
From My Stash: black and white cardstock, red ribbon, red thread, rhinestones, zebra ribbon, burlap



I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!



11 comments:

  1. oooh lala indeedily, LOVE this ... the balloon heart is genius! She is gazing adoringly at all the lovely stash in your room hun! thanks for joining in with the Sunday STamper x

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  2. I love this one Anita, of course the colors are my favorite together but I love the hot air balloons and the lady, too cool. I HAVE to get me some hot air balloon stamps.

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  3. Very pretty card! Love how you used the hot air balloons to make the heart shape. The lady is lovely

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  4. Anita, you took my breath away with this project! It is over the moon! Just absolutely stunning. I think it shows perfectly just how often we can pull the same plate of stamps and never have the same end result. Bravo! Yvonne

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  5. Gorgeous card, love her mink stole, lovely touch as are the balloons. Lovely creation. Enjoy your weekend. Tracy x

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  6. 'Houston, We have lift off!'

    Absolutely loving this card Anita, one of my faves. Stunningly vintage, Balloon hearts? genius! beautiful images, but coupled with such a strong contemporary colour scheme = Perfect! Anna xx

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  7. This is very beautiful. Detailed and lovely.

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  8. What fabulous pops of red! Love the way you've colored the balloons and that craft card is the perfect contrast to the other colors. Love it!

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  9. Обалдееееть...Анита, я просто в восторге от твоих работ!!! WAW!!!

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  10. This is so creative and pretty! Love it!

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