Friends with Flair: Blue Balloon

Happy Friday! Here’s my project for this week’s Friends with Flair. I went monochromatic, combining this week’s Mojo Monday sketch with images from Unity’s Bella Blvd. co-branded Sunny Happy Skies kit.

My card’s on the clean and simple side, using some pale blue polka dotted paper as a sky background for the kit’s hot air balloon image. The image was stamped on white cardstock in gray ink for a soft look, then colored with Copic markers and cut out. I used dimensional dots to attach the balloon to the panel and just glued the basket directly to the patterned paper.

I set the dotted panel on another piece of patterned paper from the same Echo Park Little Girl collection kit. The panel’s edges are machine stitched, mirroring the paper’s stitch-like pattern. A strip of light blue faux suede ribbon stretches over the panel, dressed up with a bow made with my Bow Easy. I replaced the sketch’s circle element with one of the kit’s cloud images, again stamped in gray and shaded with Copic markers. I added some Crystal Stickles around the edges for just a bit of sparkle.

For more Unity inspiration, check out the full list of FWF players on the Unity blog.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Unity Stamp Co. Sunny Happy Skies kit, X-Press Copic blending cardstock, Tsukineko Memento London Fog ink, Copic markers (BG0000, BG000, BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15, BG70, E25, E31, E33), Echo Park Little Girl Collection Kit, Zva Creative dimensional dots, May Arts light blue faux suede ribbon, Bow Easy, Ranger Crystal Stickles

other: Soft Sky and Bermuda Bay cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); sewing machine