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COME FLY WITH ME SCRAPUTANTE

By: Cricut OCD
13-Jun-12

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Hi fellow Scrappers! I'm back! Kelly at Scraputane was nice enough to ask me to be a GD for her and her wonderful store/blog using the new Basic Grey's What's Up Collection. It's wonderful paper and the use is limitless! Be sure to check out more wonderful items and tutorials on her blog at scraputante.blogspot.com. It's amazing!

Several years ago I worked for a company that would schedule our fall meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico so we could attend their wonderful Balloon Festival. If you ever get the chance to attend it is beautiful beyond words. You have to get up at 4 AM to be there for lift off and of course champagne and orange juice is required or better known as the "hair of the dog" to get all of us up and moving! They have a race with about 500 balloons. Afterwards some of them will let you have short rides. Our "leader" was friends with one of the crews and so we were encouraged to try it out. Needless to say after several breakfast drinks we were game! It's impossible to tell who is in the balloon but trust me there were to many people for my liking! It is fun to look back on now though....now that my feet are on the ground!

I stamped the background paper and used Perfect Pearls to add more balloons. Lots of fussy cutting and then I added some liquid Perfect Pearls to the balloon. Thanks for all of your sweet comments and encouragement to get me back to scrapping! And thanks again to Kelly for honoring me with a GD spot! TFL

Products Used

Ranger Ink - Liquid Pearls - Dimensional Paint - Chestnut $2.49	Ranger Ink - Liquid Pearls - Dimensional Paint - Copper Pearl $2.49	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Faded Jeans $4.99 Sale : $4.64
BasicGrey - Whats Up Collection - 12 x 12 Collection Pack Item Discontinued	BasicGrey - Whats Up Collection - Flags Item Discontinued

Other Products: Bling from stash

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	By Rain_Dog 27-Oct-12 What a cool story and photos. I love your hot air balloons.

	By CommaHolly 11-Sep-12 FABULOUS pics and great colorful LO!

	By Lunie2nz 07-Sep-12 Came to visit your gallery and picked this one to comment on because I love the stamping you did in the background. Fav!

	By Dstanek35 18-Aug-12 vERY cUTE lo...

	By Peridotskies 28-Jul-12 What a beautiful lo!!

	By JoJo218 14-Jul-12 Great LO... love this pp�s!!!! I have made some cards with it, too!!! :O)

	By Lauri D 01-Jul-12 this is sooo adorable!

	By Henri Jean 30-Jun-12 Very cool layout. My husband worked on a hot air balloon crew for 2 years and travelled the country with the balloon as part of the crew. He participated once or twice in the big even in Alburquerque and wants to take me. How fun that you got to see this!

	By Joydee1963 20-Jun-12 Oh,this so pretty,great photo.

	By CUTTIN UP 19-Jun-12 Love the colors! Like the balloons on your paper.

	By Boreal 19-Jun-12 beautiful page! love the colors and the hot air balloon embellies and stamping!

	By Kellyshoaf 17-Jun-12 this came out sooo gorgeous Rochelle! I am so jealous you had the perfect pix for it too! Thanks foes doing such wonderful work for scraputante!

	By Gladyspr 16-Jun-12 The page is fabulous and the experience of attending an event like this should be wonderful!

	By LynneJ 16-Jun-12 glad to see you scrapping again! This is great, and you did an awesome job on the balloons you made. I think I'd need a few dinks in me before i'd be willing to go up in one of those, too~LOL! those little flags are adorable!

	By DaisyButton 16-Jun-12 So bright and fun!

	By Newtoscrapping2011 16-Jun-12 This is so awesome! Perfect photos for this line

	By Campbellkids 15-Jun-12 Way to go Rochelle! Good to see you back!! Love the bright colors, stamping and fussy cutting. Sounds to me like you had a really great day!

	By Joscrappr 15-Jun-12 Congrats on the GD, and great job on the layout! We went for a hot air balloon ride in Pagosa Springs, CO last month, we got the champagne & oj after the flight, tho. I'll have to check out that pp when I'm ready to scrap our balloon ride pics! Glad to see you creating again!!

	By Ccclaw 15-Jun-12 UP, up and away! What a fun page and a fun day. Love how you used the liquid pearls - I need to get myself some. Great page.

	By Scrapsnstuf 15-Jun-12 "Liquid courage" can get you to do things you may not do otherwise! Like how you circled the pic with bling, awesome balloons too, cute page!

	By Chipboard Queen 15-Jun-12 I love this, love the balloons on your paper and the one you put liquid pearls on, great job and congrats on being GD!!!

	By Lenethren 14-Jun-12 Terrific job on this! A ride in one of those sounds like great fun.

	By Lizzy Wurmann G. 14-Jun-12 Wow, congrats Rochelle! I love all these balloons and the festive look of this!

	By Timetoscrapforme 14-Jun-12 This is really amazing! I love the embellies that you found for this layout! Love the circle of bling, too! Awesome work with your fussy cutting and stamping! Looks like you had a great time!

	By CrimsonMama 14-Jun-12 Wow, I would love to see this balloon festival, awesome photos and LO Rochelle!

	By BonniePratte 14-Jun-12 Rochelle, this is beautifully done. Great job!!!!

	By SheilaMarie 14-Jun-12 Beautiful page! Love the balloons, inking ans bling!

	By C Mom Go 14-Jun-12 Congrats girl!!! Very cute page.

	By Rice8994 14-Jun-12 Wow amazing beautiful photos,great design so perfect!

	By BlancheG. 14-Jun-12 I like this page a lot..like all the balloons..cute pictures..We went to one in White Sands N. Mexico. It trully is something to see...glad you are back!!!!

	By Scrappydianne 14-Jun-12 Gorgeous!!!! I have heard of this but never was lucky enough to attend...I have been to small version of one in Snowmass, Co before...love the lo and pics!!! I want some mimosa's too!!!!

	By Tonys Page 14-Jun-12 This is stunning work my friend!!!!! I love it!!!! I'am very happy you are back!!!!!

	By Cindy JK 14-Jun-12 Love the colors! How exciting!

	By Scrappin Zeta 14-Jun-12 Great photos!! Nice lo!

	By Mmlsweet 14-Jun-12 ooooooooooooh love it.... I was able to see something similar in San Angelo, TX... nothing near as grand as this! Love all the pearls and bling and so good to see you scrappin!

	By Unknown 14-Jun-12 How FUN is this! A hot air balloon went over our house once....it was riding so low I yelled up to them to throw me a line! :) They laughed and said they couldn't squeeze another person in (could be why they were so low - hehehe) Awesome page - love your handmade paper - love your page!

	By HisGEM 14-Jun-12 Glad to see you creating again! Beautifully done~

	By Scraphouse 14-Jun-12 very pretty photos, colors and bling

	By Placktorin 14-Jun-12 Gorgeous work...love the photos!!!!

	By CookieGranny 14-Jun-12 So lovely! Really really pretty. Great colors and I love the balloons you cut out. Such pretty details to make it all flow together. Great work, GD!!

	By Kelstev 14-Jun-12 What a perfect LO for your beautiful photos! You're so brave! lol..I could never go up in one of those! PS..Congrats on the GD!

	By Obadiah 14-Jun-12 Would you like to fly in my beautiful balloon......Blast from the past my friend! This is SO pretty! You did a great job!

	By Reneabouquets 14-Jun-12 Congrats on your GDT! What an awesome experience, and those photos are just beautiful! Love your gussied up hot air balloon!

	By Dnurse 14-Jun-12 wow - awesome! Love all your details & color combo!

	By Roxy62pa 13-Jun-12 Looks like fun but I'm not brave enough to try a balloon ride. Great colorful page and I love the balloons.

	By Fennec 13-Jun-12 Fun and bright page! Love the flags and balloons!

	By Maria Engelwinge 13-Jun-12 Wow. what a fascinating story, thanks for sharing! Love all the balloons, the colors and the amazing pictures. You certainly have a lot of fascinating stories from your life dear friend! Lots of hugs!

	By Chez49 13-Jun-12 oh a big congrats from me too,,,,,great lil page and the fotos are awesome....xo

	By Dsatter 13-Jun-12 SPECTACULAR lo!!! Love the colours and pps, the extra balloons and the perfect pearls! Awesome flags and bling!! The photos are awesome..and you are brave...never would my feet hop in there and soar thru the sky...it's called phobia...fear of heights!!!! Superb job! Congrats ...hope you get to do it again!!!

	By Bluffy 13-Jun-12 Congrats on the GD! Gorgeous Page! Love the pp and the circle of bling!

	By Helbert 13-Jun-12 Wow!!!!! What awesome photos Rochelle!!!! I am so loving the Patriotic theme here with all the red, white & blue! The little flags are too cute & the bling circle & title are perfect!!!!

	By Melissadam 13-Jun-12 Perfect pics for this collection! Love the distressed edges!

	By Nuggles 13-Jun-12 Love the stamped background and liquid pearl detail on the balloon, Awesome photo's and design.

	By Happy Go Lucky 13-Jun-12 YEAH!!!! so glad you are over your "slump" and have gotten your lo creativity back!!! and you are off to a great start with this fun and colorful look at hot air ballooning. (loved your description). And congrats on the GD "gig". Kelly couldn't have chosen a better scrapper.

	By Lisasimo 13-Jun-12 Such a lovely page! Congrats on the guest design spot! Much deserved.

	By Kobe2256 13-Jun-12 fabulous LO! great photos....hot air ballooning is not something I would be game enough to try! love the colours.

	By Nkaigle 13-Jun-12 It's a great page Rochelle, a fitting return!!! The red/white/blue colors are perfect for this page, and I also admire your use of the liquid pearls! Congrats on being a guest designer my friend!!!! Lovely work!!!!