Friday, February 1, 2008

Pooka's 2nd challenge

Details for today's challenge can be found here http://pookascrayon.blogspot.com/
On September 19, 1783, the first hot-air balloon was sent aloft in Versailles, France with animal passengers including a sheep, rooster and a duck. On that same day in 1964, I was born. This is my entry for today's challenge:
There was a lot of cutting involved here. I had to create a hot-air balloon with some shimmery cording and a circle of lilac cardstock cut with a QuicKutz nesting circle die cut and I paper pieced the basket. The stamps are from Technique Tuesday's Dog and Pony Show set and I colored them with Hobby Lobby brush pens after stamping them with Archival Ink. Then I cut them out and glued the rooster and sheep on. The duck is attached with a pop dot. In the background, the trees are a Cricut die cut that I made with my Design Studio software and the Cricut Sampler cartridge. I handwrote the date on the basket with a brown brush marker. It is done(though I wish I had a stamp that says "You lift me UP").
Also, on my birthday, but I cannot remember the year, Steamboat Willie was released. I wanted to use that one but for lack of time, I found another event to create this card for.
Please remember my husband in your prayers as we travel to see a specialist for his loss of 50% of his vision.
Sadly, I may have to miss tomorrow's challenge but I hope you will participate. Be back soon.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

funny card...love it

Pooka said...

This is adorable, and exactly the sort of thing I was talking about! Good job!

And good luck with the dh and his eyes.

Susan said...

Love the card! We'll pray for Barry and for safe travel. Be careful and keep us updated.

Pooka said...

Go ahead and repost the link, but I saw it, so you're shiny.