Hot Air Balloon Card For Dad
Happy Father’s Day by Susan Mast
Bazzill Supplies:
6×6 Mac Mini-Prints Multipack: Sprockets, Interface, Keyboard, Digitize, Microchip, Circuit
4×6 Mac Two Scoops Multipack
8.5×11 Lakeshore Cardstock
8.5×11 Ruby Slipper Cardstock
8.5×11 Natural Cardstock
Bazzill Marathon Runner
Taylored Expressions Supplies:
Sky’s the Limit, Plus Coordinating Dies
Other Supplies:
Ranger Distress Ink Pad – Black Soot
Buttons
Waxy Flax
Black Pen
Instructions:
Fold Natural cardstock trimmed to 4.25×11 in half to form 4.25×5.5 inch card.
Trim Sprockets (yellow) patterned paper to 4.25×5.5 and adhere to face of card.
Trim two pieces of Luscious Lime Two Scoops cardstock to 2×5.5” and tear along top edges. Adhere to card front.
Make two frames from Lakeshore and Ruby Slipper cardstock that measure 4.25×5.5 on the outer sides. Trim the Lakeshore cardstock so that the inner frame measures .5” and the Ruby Slipper cardstock that measures 3/8”.
Embellish lower left side of frame on the card with waxy flax and buttons.
Adhere the Ruby Slipper frame onto the Lakeshore frame and then use foam pop dots to attach double frame to card.
Cut triangle banners freehand from Interface (blue stripe) printed paper and mount on hand cut Ruby Slipper triangle mats.
Cut the letters DAD from the Keyboard paper and adhere to banner. String banner in upper right corner using waxy flax.
Using the large balloon stamp on Digitize patterned paper, stamp three balloon images.
Using the small balloon stamp on Microchip and Circuit patterned paper, stamp three balloon images of each.
Freehand cut the nine balloon images and sort them into three piles based on paper design.
Fold each similar stamped balloon image in half and adhere one side of each balloon to the others to form a dimensional hot air balloons.
Fussy cut and save one of the hot air balloon baskets for each of the three balloons.
Adhere hot air balloons and baskets to card front and draw lines to connect baskets to balloons.