Up, Up And Away

 Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash for this fortnight the theme is Balloon(s) hot air or party your choice. I went with Birthday Balloons.

Digging deep for this card  a Stamping Bella cling mount stamp from the Uptown Girl collection I have had for a long time, I coloured her up and fussy cut her out (not sure why I need to stress myself), but she needed to by flying high with her helium balloons. Background is smooshed distress inks on watercolour paper. The balloon girl is popped up. The base is a plum shade from Stampin'up and I can't remember it's full name, one of the last few loose pieces I have.

As if fussy cutting wasn't stressful enough I made an easel card note pad. I like making fun fold cards and I find them easier and quicker to make up. 

I am adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Birthday

Addicted to Stamps and More ~~ #473 Birthdays

Thanks for stopping by today and check out what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge then did in your stash for some hot air or party balloons and enter our challenge.

Let’s Play Hide and Seek with Shopping Our Stash #184

If you are looking for my Clear it Out Tuesday Blog post scroll down or just click HERE.

The Crew at Shopping Our Stash wants you to play Hide and Seek for challenge # 184. We want to you to put a hidden element on or in your card or use a picture of someone playing hide and seek. I went through a long list of ideas for my Hide and Seek card and finally decided on one, you will have to scroll down to see what I’m hiding in my card.

I used one of the stamps I found in my Christmas Stocking wow was I surprised when I saw them. I have a lot of Stamping Bella stamps but not any uptown girls. This one is Claudia has a Candy. I used my favourite colour Purple and lots of it.  This is for a friend that also has loves purple and dragonflies. The die cuts are spellbinders Labels 8 and Decorative labels 8.  And now for my hidden element………..

Oh no not yet… here is a close up of the dragonfly and now the hidden element…….

My card is hiding a note pad. It is an easel note pad holder and I found the easy to follow tutorial HERE. I hope that works it’s a video link. There is a space on the back to put a sentiment.

Side look at how the note pad holder works, sorry I forgot to take a picture of the back where I stamped the sentiment.
Challenges I’m entering this in:
Simon Says Wednesday Use something new Simon Says Wednesday Use something new  Uptown girl stamp
Crafty Gals corner challenge #1 Anything Goes = blog hop  head over there and check them out they are brand new.
Design Team showcase Jan 11 to Jan 17
thanks for stopping by today and you know you want to play along with us at Shopping Our Stash.