Jun 26, 2015
Blog Design Team: Just Because
Happy, happy, Friday, crafty friends! Blog Team designer Kay Miller has created a fun and fabulous card for us to get us started for the weekend and we can’t wait to share it with you!
Plus, ‘just because’ it’s Friday and we love to kick things off right, we’re doing a giveaway for a $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store! Keep reading for details…
Let’s hear from Kay about her project…
Well, you know how much I love to create little scenes on my cards
with dies, and Taylored Expressions has so many fun dies that work so
well for this. Today I am using the new Sky High Hot Air Balloon dies,
and I wanted to create what looked like a sunset sky, so here is what I
did.
Using a piece of watercolor paper (4 x 5-1/4), I wet
the whole piece, and then dabbed pink watercolor at the top, then
orange and then yellow at the bottom. I let those blend and then I dried
it with my heat tool. I cut the Rolling Clouds border at a slant,
stamped the ‘Just because’ sentiment, and glued this flat to the top of
my watercolored piece.
I cut the row of houses out of some dark purple
card stock and glued them down flat to the bottom of the panel. I cut
the sun out and glued it low on the horizon. It is a sunset after all,
so the sun needed to be on it’s way down 🙂 Next, I cut out the parts
and pieces to the hot air balloons and glued them all together.
I cut a
heart out for the smaller balloon, because it looked a little plain. I
adhered the two balloons with foam tape, slightly overlapping the
smaller one. I then mounted the whole panel on an A2 top folding card.
Thanks for stopping by the TE blog today!
Thank you so much, Kay, for sharing your gorgeous card with us today! Be sure to visit Kay on her blog, My Joyful Moments, for more of her fabulous work. Have a joyful day!
How to Enter: Leave a comment below telling us about the last time you brightened someone’s day (or had yours brightened by someone else) ‘just because’ by Monday, June 29, 2015 at 11:59 pm PST.
We’ll choose one lucky winner at random to win a $25 Gift Certificate to the TE Store! We’ll announce the winner here on the TE Blog next week. Good
luck!