Shadow Box Balloon Scene Card
There seems to be lots of different styles of shadow box cards out there but I decided to make this particular design as it seemed easy enough and it folds flat for posting. I had two challenges in mind firstly The Male Room Challenge and then a sketch challenge with friends/members over on the docrafts gallery so I combined them both. The finished card size was 7x5, scored on both short sides at ½" and 1" to achieve the box shape with a circle aperture. The centre panels were embossed with a lovely scenescape, coloured the debossed channels with Tea Green and Buttercup promarkers and cut into squares leaving a small gap to allow the lovely blue base colour to show through. A section of map patterned paper finishes off the inside with a stamped balloon brightly coloured with Poppy, True Blue and Buttercup promarkers. I used the same map paper for the Happy Birthday signpost stamp. As the Male Room Challenge was to inc...