Hot Air Balloon Birthday

I've loved this hot air balloon since the first second I saw it in the "Everyday Pop Up Cards" cricut book.  For this card I cut it at 4 1/4" high to fit on my 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card.

The back ground hills and sun are cut at 4 1/4" wide from "Country Life". I inked all the edges of the hills and the sun using green or orange ink and my finger dauber.

I printed this adorable banner with the senitment and "pinafore" font. The cut it from the "Wedding" cricut solutions cart sized to 1 1/4" (to fit on the balloon), I then fit the sentiment to the banner.

The little clouds are from "April Showers" cut at 1 1/2" and 1", I inked those with blue ink as well as the background paper.

The inside would look naked with little of scraps of the patterned paper. :)

The blue polka-dot paper I used for the sky is a scrap of Heidi Grace paper, the starry balloon is from a DCWV stack called K&Co. Party stack. The rest is from my scrap bin. The last couple of things I did with this card is adding the white gel pen stitches and outlining the clouds, balloon and blue sky layer with Stardust Stickles.

Challenges:

Cricut Cartridge Chaos : Everyday Popup Cards

Scrappy Mom's : Country Life

Celebrate the Occasion : Birthday card + a balloon 

Jen's Birthday Blog Hop

Hi everyone!! We are all so happy to have you hopping with us today!!

You should have come here from Celeste's blog  (isn't she so wonderful).  If you just happened upon my blog and would like to start at the beginning, please go back and visit Jen  (the birthday girl) so you won't miss any of the crafty ladies on the hop!!

Here is the birthday card I made for Jen!! It has LOTS of purple... after all, she is the Purple Scrapbooker! :)

The card is shaped like a cloud.  I've been obsessed with shaped cards lately, I don't know what it is but they are so fun to make!! As you can see, I used my Gypsy to weld two cloud shapes together.  When I do this, the overlap creates a flat side on the card base when it's folded, so I always cut an additional top layer to cover the entire card body.

Here's the little butterfly I added to the cloud.  I put Glossy Accents and Stickles on the butterfly wings as well as placing a few dark purple rhinestones to represent the flutter trail. The wings are curled up and propped up with pop dots while the butterfly's body is glue straight to the card.

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I just freehanded the trail and spacing for the rhinestones. I used cute plaid paper for the cute but uncommon purple cloud! :) Here you can see all the little stitches I doodled on Jen's card.

I stamped the "happy birthday" sentiment on a scrap of the purple polka dot paper and used a square punch to cut the little "v"s to create the little banner shape.  I layered up the sentiment and had to punch each layer as I built it up. This banner is added with pop dots.

More stitching and another stamp for the inside.

Supplies:

Bazzill purple metallic card stock base

purple plaid paper (cloud) is Heidi Grace

Polka dot paper (on butterfly wings and sentiment tag) is also Heidi Grace

Dark purple generic card stock

Dark Purple self stick rhinestones

Glossy Accents

Stickles

Square punch

Gelly Roller purple glitter gel pen

Pop dots

Scotch Quick Dry Glue

ATG glue runner

birthday sentiments are Hero Arts : Big Hugs

Cricut Cartridges used:

April Showers Seasonal Cricut Cart for the cloud card body (cut @ 4 1/4" x 5 1/2")

Paper Pups for the butterfly (cut @ 2.36")

Click here to download the Gypsy cut file

Now, don't forget to leave me a comment for a chance to win my blog candy!!

I am giving away this 10 piece stamp set from Inkadinkado.  It's all about birthdays!!

Your next stop is Julie @ Cricut Chick

In case you get lost along the way, here is the whole blog hop lineup:

Jen - www.purplescrapbooker.com
Amber - www.stayingcrafty.blogspot.com
Sarah - www.pinkcricut.com
Star - www.starspaperpassion.blogspot.com
Georgiana - www.carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com
Tracy - www.craftjunkietoo.com
Denice - www.pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com
Celeste - www.ccscards.blogspot.com
Cheryl - www.cardsbycg.blogspot.com <-- you are here
Julie - www.cricutchick.blogspot.com <--- your next stop
Jen - www.jenscraftcorner.com