I have been working on being creative with the cards I am making for my sister with the stash of paper crafting supplies she left here a while back. I have always liked balloons on cards but with only a small punch it limits where I can use them. For this large card I started with a red card and added the bright striped paper!! I used my Nestibilities to cut three circles which I wanted to turn into balloons. After die cutting the circles I embossed them and sanded the blue one to reveal the white core. To create the knot in the neck of the balloons I took a scrap of the same cardstocks and cut a strip with a triangle shape at the end which I adhered to the back of the balloons which quite nicely simulated the knots. Next, I sponged all their edges with coordinating ink and then tied dark gray threads to all the balloons. I die cut a purple fence to tie them to and tore a piece of green cardstock for the grass. I adhered the grass and then tucked the fence into it. I used white glue in a fine tip applicator on the fence. Worked really well. I used a large needle to get the strings of the balloons wrapped around the top rail of the fence. I will certainly be making balloons this way again!! I like the way they turned out. Therese
