A Little of This and That

 A2 size card  Background pattern paper from Adornit  company called "blender basic".  Star sequin, a graduation cap sticker and a hand cut banner.   Sentiment is from a stamp set by Penny Black called "gratitude" , one of my go to sets. A2 size card Pattern paper by Basic Grey from their "Oxford" collection, printed 2011.  Using the same "congratulations" sentiments and star sequins.  Dark blue card-stock was use for the card base.  Card-stock was purchased from the Paper Source store. These were very easy cards and I all of the supplies mentioned I have had for a long while.  It is good to use up what I have.

My challenge was to use this old Studio-G dollar stamp. I have this clear stamp for a very long time and I wanted to see how many ways to use it in my latest round of card making for masculine birthday cards. I had a little difficultly at first.  With some Pinterest and YouTube inspiration here is what I cam up with.  I went through my stamps to see what other sentiments and images that would go well with the hot air ballon stamp.   I did stamp out the hot air balloon on different papers along with ink colors to see what I thought look good. With some help from Pinterest for color combinations. All the stamped sentiments on the above cards came from different clear set by Papertrey Ink. I stamped the hot air ballon stamp in Versamark ink and heat embossed it using Rangers white embossing powder. I took a very old template by All Night Media to create the clouds using a blending tool.  Supplies used: Bazzill card-stock in "candy ...