Happy Saturday

Hello and happy Saturday.  I've got a quick post today, before running off to see my daughter play what might be her last game of the high school lacrosse season.

I made this card to fit the May sketch challenge at Happy Little Stampers.  I used a balloon stamp from PTI Birthday style, and stamped a (carefully laid out) random pattern of balloons.  I used a tiny little flourish image from Beautiful Brushstrokes for my balloon strings.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Let's Get Sentimental.

I made another balloon card using the same sketch.  I used die cut balloons and used an inlaid overlapping die cutting technique for this card.  I am also entering this card at the Happy Little Stampers CAS Diecut/Punches challenge.  I am putting my name in for consideration for their DT, so am trying to make cards using interesting techniques with die cutting.  As you can imagine, this card took a while.  I'm not even sure I like it as much as the simpler version above.  My daughter said that the balloons looked too plain, so I added some color coordinated sequins to them.

The only thing stamped on this card is the sentiment, and as it is from Paper Smooches, I'll enter this card over at their Anything Goes Sparks Challenge.  I am also linking this card up at Seize the Birthday.  The toppings option is to use the negative, and I'm not sure if this technique qualifies or not--I'll let them be the judge of that.

My last card for today uses both the inspiration photo and the sketch at Fusion French Twist.  I used some papers from MME Breeze--it was difficult to choose because there were so many pretty grey and yellow patterns to chose from, and I die cut a flower from Ellen Hutson Wild Garden dies--twice--once in black and once in yellow, and then pieced them together.  My mother has requested 10 anniversary cards, so I am trying to use anniversary sentiments as much as possible this month.

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