This was the criteria for the latest challenge at the 123 Challenge blog:
From the recent Balloon Festival when Kyaa and I went down to
the lake to watch the hot air balloons I had lots of photographs of balloons so
the balloon part was easy! While we were watching the balloons drift over the lake,
we witnessed a balloon land awkwardly on the embankment and went over to offer
assistance. The pilot Craig was most grateful and had us help to manoeuvre the balloon
to more stable ground then let his passengers out. He also got me to help
deflate the balloon by pulling on the cord to release the air from the top. To
help that process along he had me sit on the deflating balloon to stop the air
from coming out the bottom. So Kyaa took a photo of me and Craig decided that
he should "scold" me. He was quite the character and in the end had
us all in stitches. It was an unexpected and fun early morning experience - happy
part of the challenge - check.
As it turns out, that balloon was red and yellow, so red
part of the challenge - check.
I picked a sketch by Kimberly Figures that I had come across
on Pinterest . I then went through my stash and found a series of red papers
that went with the red from the pictures. I picked a label tag from my stash
and die cut a second label (Die-namics Layered Label) from a larger pre cut tag and layered it on top of the first label.
To finish the layout, I stamped the flourishes using the
Stampin' Up! Baroque Motifs stamp set, and added a few flowers I picked up at a
$2 shop. I also added a few hot air balloon stamps from the Kaisercraft Up, Up& Away stamp set. The title was die cut with the Die-Namics By the Letters
dies.
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To finish off the layout, I felt that there was something
missing, but I wasn't sure what. In the end I had this roll of washi tape lying
on my desk and decided that I would use it as a border around the page. I think
it finishes the whole thing off nicely, don't you?
Till next time, happy days!
7 comments:
such a beautiful page! thanks so much for playing along with us at 123!!!
What a fun layout this is! Gorgeous work!
Perfect photos for this challenge ;) Love the sketch too. Thanks for playing along @ 123 :)
Love the photos!!! Beautiful layout :)
A balloon festival sounds like a wonderful place to be! Gorgeous layout Francine; love those big banners. Thanks for joining in at 123! :)
Perfect pics and stamps for this challenge. It looks like you had so much fun! Thanks for sharing it with us at 123!
What great photos for this challenge, thanks for joining in at 123! :)
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