Flying High

 Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built and this week the challenge is: Monochromatic.

 And here is the card I created for your inspiration:

I used a lot of the same elements as my Design Team card a couple weeks ago.  These hot air balloons are just perfect for masculine cards!  But while the other card was very colorful, this one is all blues.  I stenciled the sky with some clouds, colored my balloon with my spectrum noir markers and fussy cut it out.  I used foam tape to pop up my balloon and sentiment banner and the two small die cut clouds.  I used a couple thin strips of card stock to add a little dimension (but less than than the others) to the larger cloud.  For a fun touch to fit the sketch I chose, I punched out tiny circles with a hole punch.  I used a circle die as a template, made evenly spaced pencil marks along the inside of the circle and then used the hole punch to make the pattern.  Rather quick and easy and I have a masculine birthday card ready to go in my stash!
Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the House blog to see the rest of the DT's creations and then get inky and play along with us.  And if you need any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your ENTIRE order coupon code over in my left sidebar.

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Soaring by to say Hi" and "Hot Air Balloon Cluster" I used the largest balloon

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle; Paper Smooches "Cute Clouds"

Stencil: Taylored Expressions "Set the Scene: Clouds"

Challenges:

Stick It Down Challenge--sketch

Creative Craft Cottage #138--CAS

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #154--anything goes

Creative Moments #211--anything goes

Cardz TV #137--anything goes

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Double Trouble #80--Something, Anything, Everything (Thing #1: anything goes; Thing #3: color {I used my Spectrum Noir markers})

Double D--skies