Summer's Here

I love Hot air balloons, to me they are a symbol of a gorgeous Hot Summer and I had a lovely time designing and decorating this large MDF Balloon (from Woodform Crafts). Charlotte sketched the lines for me and using these I traced and made a template for my first panels which are the embossed TH Distressed ink panels, Archival Black to edges, and used matte Medium to adhere to the balloon shape. The yellow cog panels are DecoArt texture paste and TH cogs stencil. Coloured once dry with acrylic paint.

I then created the distressed brown panels and basket using Deco Art acrylic paints. I used Andy Skinners Industrial stamps and MME small script stamp from the Asparagus Collection of stamps with Archival Sepia Ink. The Patina Blue/ green (depending upon light) were created again with DecoArt paints and Docrafts Steampunk stamps and Bee Crafty pocket watch Art Stamp.

I then added MDF Cogs and Cog Bee (Wild Roots - Woodform Crafts), which I had decorated with Versamark and clear EP to cogs and then DecoArt MM paints and Viva Metal Colour Bronze to outer Cog Bee border. Finally added smaller metallic cogs and clock hands (Amazon) all adhered using DecoArt Matte medium. A leather braid was used to attach the basket to the balloon.

I then removed glass and decorated the Range frame base DecoArt Acrylic Titanium white, then DA Gesso through Andy Skinner bubble stencil and then I sealed with DA ultra Matte Varnish - it was "flat" and uninteresting so I used Finnabair bubble stencil and DA Americana Frost Glitter paint - which is so hard to capture!!

Thank you for dropping by  :)     x 

I would like to enter the following Challenges 

That's Crafty                                                                          Close To Nature 

Rhedd's Creative Spirit                                                          Anything Goes (MM)

Country View Crafts                                                             In The Summer Garden 

The Artistic Stamper                                                               Distress It!!

Altered Eclectics                                                                     Anything Goes (MM)

TIMI (Craft Stamper)                                                              Anything Goes (Stamp/s)

Love 2 Create                                                                          Anything Goes (MM)

Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda                            Something Beginning with "B"

MIUCB                                                                                    Anything Goes (MM)

SanDee & amelie's Steampunk Challenge                      Summer Special Anything Goes (MM)
Love To Craft                                                                          Anything Goes