Friday, October 7, 2011

Up, Up and Away!

< This project earned me "Spotlight Artist" recognition on the City Crafter Challenge Blog - thank you! >

While chatting with a friend yesterday, she mentioned that for her mom's birthday they were giving her a hot air balloon ride.  Somehow we got onto the subject of presentation and I said I'd make her a balloon to go with the gift certificate. 

After some trial and error, here is how it turned out.  My crafty friend had a paper lantern which I painted then hot glued narrow ribbon onto, cut a circle to cover the largest end of the lantern and punched small holes where I wanted my skewers to go.  (There were other ideas tried but this turned out to be the most stable and successful method!)  I trimmed the skewers to the length I needed and hot glued them into the basket (which I'd already decorated).  Then, pointy end up, put them through the circle to the height I wanted and they stay!  I think she'll be pleased.



I entered this into a 3D challenge at City Crafter (http://www.citycrafter.blogspot.com/) ...


The card I made to match ...


10 comments:

  1. I LoVe this!! Best use EVER of an 80cent paper lantern :)
    I'm sure she'll aDoRe it!

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  2. Oh wow, this is so fun, thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  3. Lovely project ... very clever ... I'm sure she will be delighted ... thanks so much for playing along at CCCB

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  4. great project! this will be on my punch inspiration blog post today.

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  5. Wow, this is fantastic!! What a neat gift they got for her, and a fabulous way to present it!

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  6. This is AWESOME! You know how I feel about hot air balloons. Love, love, love!

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  7. What a wonderful project. And I love the card also.. Thanks so much for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  8. This is soooo CUTE and FUN! LOOOOVE it! Thanks so much for joining us this week at CCCB!

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  9. If you can show me how can you made this air balloon then i am very thankful to you.
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  10. I absolutely LOVE your hot air balloon & card. So cute and I love the colors you chose and how you used the Baker's Twine on the card. Adorable!

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