Up, Up and away.

I totally love Hot air balloons right now. I looked up some projects about hot air balloons and found THIS   Super cool right??  Then I saw THIS  I really liked the idea of hot air balloon being on the chipboard. My husband is really tall and our ceilings are, well, not. SO hanging anything from the ceiling is a no go.

Here is my completed project, Tutorial to follow.

I recently got some awesome October Afternoon
paper. When I saw this cloud paper I thought I
would never find a use for it. I think it works perfectly with the hot air balloon.










Here is a picture of the template my hubby made me on the computer, printed on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.

the "bulb" is 10 inches. The length is 8 inches.












I traced this pattern onto all of my patterned paper. I made a chipboard template. Now I will have one for a long time.

I traced and cut 8 of them.

Next, I folded them in 1/2 length wise. I then glued them back to folded back.

Here are several photo's of them after they have been glued waiting to dry.

 Here I used my crop a dile to add a small hole for threading seambinding.

Here are all the sections glued together.

Now I took a 12x12 sheet of chipboard and paint it or cover it with paper. I chose to cover it with black cardstock.

 next I covered it with this October Afternoon sky paper.

 

 Next, I glued the spine to the paper. If you don't glue the spine down it will flop around.

 Here it is after I glued it down. I also glued the two most end pieces to the back-round.

 Proud of my stitching on this.

 Here it is with me attempting to get tall enough to stand over it and take pics.

I placed a strip of pearls for the body of the butterfly. I had never sewn thru chipboard before. My VERY elderly sewing machine required some assistance, but I really like the way it turned out.

 Here is a close up of the distressing. I punched out a cloud and tucked it in. I really went to town on the edges.

 I love this seam binding. I get it from Cheep trims. It come in 100 yard spools for about 10 bucks. I have white and black. I dye the white one all the time.

A few years ago I was given these "learn Chinese cards" and I have been slowly using them in my projects. I just love them. The bling in the bottom corner came from ETSY. 

 Here are some flowers from my stash pile.

Here is a close up of the trim I used and the lace.
I really hope you enjoyed this and make one for yourself. If you do leave a link down below in the comments.
Happy crafting!!
Haley

Hello my scraptastic friends,
I have valentines day on the brain as well as in the heart this year. Heck I have valentines in my hands too. LOL I just can't stop making valentines day projects. Here are two of my most recent.

 Layouts are usually such a challenge for me. Then it dawned on me that large layouts were just giant mini albums and now that is how I treat them. ;) Weird I know, but it worked.

 I LOVE this card. I had so much fun making this. I started out making cards and then fell in love with mini albums. It had been a while since I had made a card. I was wondering if I had lost my card making mojo. (giggle)

 ok friends I know this one is side ways.  I will figure out how to fix it. I just love the way this photo came out better.

This last photo is a sneak peak at the paper bag mini I just finished a few days ago. I will be posting photos on tomorrows post. Please be looking for it.

I have one last quick note. I am teaching my first mini album class this weekend and again on Tuesday. (eeeeek!!) So excited.  I will posting pics of the finished project on Monday. Or if I get froggy maybe I will post later on today. ;)
Have a scraptastic day everyone,
Haley