Enjoy the Ride

Result!
I've found a home for the hot air balloon I initially made last week to use on my Daring Cardmakers Balloon-themed card.  I had to make one in brighter colours because the first attempt didn't show up on the background I'd made.  I could never be accused of forward planning, eh?
Anyhoooo.  I realised the balloon would work perfectly as one of the "circle" elements on the current Sketch File LO, so here it is - and this time I stuck to the same paper collection to ensure everything went together nicely!

The Sketch
 I did away with the usual card blank and used the large circle to make a circular, rocking card.  A bit of "poetic license" taken to use the balloon as the smaller circle on the LO, and the 2 clouds as the larger one in the foreground - well, sketches are all about interpretation, I reckon! 

February Sketch

 I used:

Circular card blank made using XCut Giant Circles die set

Papers;  "Glistening" 6x6 paper pad (Authentique)

Hot Air Balloon and clouds from "Build a Scene set" (XCut)

"Enjoy" die by Sue Wilson
Striped circle embellishments (XCut Tiny Circle Punch)

Toning flat-backed pearl 

The trick with these cards is to get them to stand up straight when you want them to - so there's quite a few bits of chipboard "ballast" hiding beneath the clouds and the 3 domed circles to balance out most of the elements being towards the right side of the card.

That's it for this time, thank you so much for visiting, I hope you'll take a minute to leave a message :)