A quick Hot Air Balloon card….

I have said before, that when I get new stamps, the first thing I do to test them out is a quick card or tag.  Well last night was a card.  I got  new ‘Hampton Art’ stamps.. hot air balloons.

You know, they actually look great simply stamped in a group of three in simple black and white… that’s when I know I like a stamp.. when it stands alone well like that….

anyhoooo… after stamping out some on plain cards (coloured in a couple to send off with some ATCs) I then decided to make a slightly more involved card (but still super easy)…

I used a piece of the new 7 gypsies papers (Antiquaries Postale)  which all have a nice postal or airmail look to them…

I also used 7 gypsies ‘Lille’ stamps (it’s at this point I wish I had had a stamp that said ‘par avion’ but I guess technically it would have been inaccurate.. ‘airmail’ would have been good…  but alas, I have no such stamp, if indeed such a stamp is made. 

The balloon was stamped and cut out and mounted on to the blue sky in the framed ‘painting’  with 3d foam tape.  The edges of the paper is (as usual) scruffed up and distressed… and the little frame is by Artimeo…

Supplies used from Calico Crafts:

7 gypsies Antiquaries Postale paper HERE.
Hampton Art hot air balloon stamp
7 gypsies ‘Lille’ stamps
Versamagic Chalk Ink (Sea Breeze, Ocean Depth and Gingerbread)
Artimeo wood frame
Crackle stamp by Andy skinner

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