Trust Your Journey - 06/19/2023

Place one of the white pieces of cardstock, trimmed to 6 1/2 x 4 1/2", inside the embossing folder so the balloon image is captured "flying" in from the side of the card. Run through your machine. 

Position the second piece of white card straight, inside the folder and run it through the machine. 

Fussy cut the hot air balloon, from this second piece of embossed card and pop to one side. 

Using a blending tool, blend the Surfboard around the embossed image, darker along the edges of the image, fading out as you move away. 

Splatter water over the ink, wait a few seconds then mop it up with a paper towel. Give it a quick blast with your heat tool. 

Ink up the sentiment stamp, from Trust Your Journey, with the Midnight hybrid ink and stamp bottom left of your background. 

Take this patterned paper, from the Royal Blue paper pack and trim to 6 3/4 x 4 3/4". 

Adhere the inky, embossed background on to the patterned paper. 

Adhere to the front of your kraft card blank. 

Use foam pads to adhere your cut out, hot air balloon to the right of the background balloon. 

Stamp a couple of the kites, with Midnight, on to a piece of white card and use the coordinating dies to cut them out. 

Adhere them around the hot air balloon, leaving the tails of the kites to hang loose. 

Finally, add a touch of sparkle to the swags and bows, on your 3D hot air balloon.