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I am sorry I have not been around much, but life seems to be moving faster than me - once again.
With unpacking, keeping the garden up, and misplacing my memory stick with photos on, I have not blogged much - I have also sent a couple of cards without photographing them - oops.
I have been doing some creating...
And here's another masculine birthday card - it's that time of year!!
It's also time for the mid-month reminder for We Love Stamping
This time I used the Uniko stamp set Up Up and Away which I received last year. This is it's first outing
I started with a background from my overflowing box - I discovered, when I packed up my craft room, and put all my backgrounds into one box, I HAVE A LOT...
I have no idea how this was made, or what I used . It was a wee bit small for the standard card size, being a snippet, so I split it and added the brown textural ribbon (first use, it was a gift) across the centre of the card.
I stamped and embossed in copper ep, the three different balloons in the set on various coloured card snippets, and then copper embossed the one basket design on a snippet of pale fawn card, fussy cut them, and adhered them under the balloon base.
I mounted the two larger balloons directly to the base, but used foam dots for the small dark green one in the foreground.
The sentiment was embossed with the same copper ep
The inside has part of the smallest balloon stamped in one corner
The envelope was also stamped, unfortunately with a bit of an oops in the middle, but I only had access to the one envelope, so it had to 'do'.
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24 comments:
It's such an effective design. Well done on finding a background when packing up, I bet you find a lot more things too!
Beautiful card Maxine love both the background, ribbon and the balloons
hugs
lolo x
My life seems to be moving faster than me too, Maxine. Too much to do every day.
Great idea using the piece of ribbon to fill the gap of the split background. I have to put all my backgrounds in a box too, it will be a better organization to find (and use!) them. Thanks for remembering this to me.
Love the air balloons, and such great fussy cutting.
Fabulous and lovely card;-))m
Maxine, that box you found must have been a real treasure. I'm glad it is being used now... this card looks fabulous!
It always takes a while to get settled into a new place, doesn't it? Especially in this hot weather. I hope you find your memory stick soon. Mxx
What a clever idea with the ribbon. It looks great. Love that background. I am so pleased that you made it work and have used it. I shall look forward to seeing what you make with the rest. Great idea to emboss the balloons. a brilliant card. Hope you find that memory stick and life settles down a bit for you xx
Hi Maxine, this is an awesome masculine card. This set definitely needed to put in the game! What a clever solution using the mesh so you could a achieve such a cohesive look after you cut the background piece. It all comes together quite nicely. And good for you using up the backgrounds you have already made. Thanks for being so encouraging my friend! It made me smile about working with your garden. It's so cold here in SC. It will be the last of March before we can (just maybe) be able to start preparing our spaces for gardening. No snow yet, but the ground surface is frozen each morning. Smiles, Kathy
The balloons look great; love the colors and that they are all different! Great that you too are using backgrounds from your box! Hugs, Gerrina
Just wonderful Maxine. The centre part at the back almost looks like hessian - I love it! And its very masculine too. Yes it does take ages to settle & unpack into a new place. xx
Great Masculine card! I like that colors that you used!
Fantastic balloon fiesta going on for this masculine birthday card.
Thanks for entering a piece of homework to the Snippets Playground. See you up in the treehouse for copious amounts of hot chocolate and marshmallows later. xxx
I love this card, Maxine. The hot air balloons are awesome. It's something I've always wanted to do, but never have tried (due to fear). Thanks for sharing your wonderful card with us at Word Art Wednesday. I appreciate you.
What a fun card. Love your background and how you set the balloons. Thanks for playing along with us at PIP Challenges.
Brilliant cared Maxine - it reminds me very much of Albuquerque, New Mexico! So colourful - perfect!
Hugs
Di xx
Beautiful Masculine Card Maxine, Balloons are always perfect for man cards! It's so good to see you are card-making again! Hugs,
Ginny DT WAW
Such a great design with a beautiful background and love the colors you used on the hot air balloons!
Thank you so much for joining in at my Crafty Wednesday challenge!
Ellie
Ellibelle's Corner
Lovely card Maxine. I waved to you today as we went through Tokoroa today in our little red MG on our way back to Auckland.
Such a fun masculine card Maxine and lovely background….I hope life gets a little less crazy for you x
Thanks so much for joining us on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday challenge at Digi Choosday !
Love and crafty hugs from
Wendy (DT)
Hi Maxine, a lovely card for a masculine birthday. The background looks great behind the hot air balloons. Have a wonderful week... Megan
Great card Maxine.
OMgosh this is such a fun and fabulous card,
Thank you so much for joining us at Crafty Catz Challenge this week, we hope to see you in future challenges.
Keep it Crafty
Hugs Bridget CCDT
Such a delightful card maxine, I love hot air balloons, on cards that is. Never been in one and not sure I want to but I do like seeing them.
We have reached that stage in our oives where everything slows down a bit and so we must realise we cannot do things at the same speed as we used to - well that is me anyway.
Take are of YOU.
Blessings, Neet xx
Lovely card!!! Thanks so much for participating in our LIL PATCH OF CRAFTY FRIENDS challenge!!! I appreciate that you play along and I enjoy visiting your blog!! Have a happy crafty day!! Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper
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