Up, Up and Away...

...in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon! Some of you just might remember that song from The 5th Dimension and some of you aren't old enough.  It's an old favorite of mine and one that I used to love to sing along with!    Speaking of favorites, this week two of my favorite companies have come together to bring you a little creative inspiration, Stampendous! and STAEDTLER.  Pretty cool, huh!?  We've loved playing together and each day this week members from both design teams have posted projects on their blogs to share with you.  If you haven't been checking them out, please go back and take a look, you won't be disappointed.  There's a blog hop on Friday and, of course, there will be prizes!  Yay! for prizes!  More info on that below!  Here's my card:

We're celebrating our newest balloon-inspired stamps this week and here I've used our new Hot Air Trio along with Soaring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps Set.  I have always had a thing for hot air balloons so this stamp is right up my alley.  If you know me, you know I love my Copic markers and that's usually my medium of choice, however, this time I've stepped out of my comfort zone and I colored this image with  STAEDTLER'S ergosoft aquarell (watercolor) pencils.  I love how you can layer the colors to achieve just the right shade!  Because I was using watercolor pencils, I stamped the image and my sentiment with Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black.  My papers are Bazzill, Strathmore Mixed Media paper and Basic Grey's What's Up 6x6 Paper Pad.  Here's a closer look at the image:

                                                

And here's a close-up of the sentiment, this is one of my favs:

The Stampendous! prize package will include one prize package per day (total of 5 packages) from those folks commenting on Stampendous bloggers that day. The Stampendous package will include SSC1171 Hot Air Scapes Perfectly Clear Stamps and SSC1170 Soaring Sentiments Perfectly Clear Stamps plus a Jumbo acrylic handle for use with them.

STAEDTLER'S prize package will be awarded at the end of the week, one for each of their bloggers from all commenters on that blog that week.

Their prize photo is below. So for best chances folks should comment on every blog every day.
1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment
4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint
1 Mars plastic eraser
1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener
1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil
1 Pigment liner sketch pen
2 Creative idea brochures

Package includes:

So, here are the designers bringing you a little inspiration today, be sure to leave some love:

Stampendous Impressions

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel (Me!) 

Rhea Weigand 

Suzanne Czosek

Kellie Mowat

Don't forget to leave some love if you want to be eligible to win a prize!  That's it for me today, I'll see you back here again tomorrow for the blog hop!  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Lea