Up, Up and Away!!

How is everyone today?  I hope you are all enjoying your crafting.  I am home after a couple of days in Birmingham - not the easiest of places to navigate even with Ken (my trusty sat nav man with a sexy Australian accent!)  Glad to be home again!
This is a sample card for the Clarity show on the German TV channel, HSE 24, using a kit with all three balloons and the mountains and hills mask.  I have always liked cards with the same image repeated, so this is my take on that idea.

• Follow the same procedure three times in the different sizes
• Stamp the balloon in place, using Archival ink on watercolour card, repeat the image on a sticky post it and cut out to make a mask
• Put the mask in place over the stamped image
• To create the sky, I used a natural sponge with a very open texture and just sponged lightly with denim, mountain rose and raspberry inks. Sponge to a level just below the base of the balloon image
• To create the hills, I used the Clarity Hills and Mountains mask- put the mask in position and sponge Lettuce and Oregano inks
• Move the mask to create a different hill and sponge slate and oregano inks to make a contrasting colour hill
• Remove balloon mask and colour with Inktense pencils
• Mat onto blue card
• Try out your positioning of the three images on to green card before you stick anything down!!
• Mat onto another layer of blue
• I also sponged around the edge of the base card, in the same way I did the sky
• Embellish with card candy

Hope you like it!  xx