March 31, 2011

The Next Moxie Fab World Challenge: In My Beautiful Balloon

Have you noticed? Hot air balloons are absolutely everywhere in paper crafting product as well as in the wide, wide world. In the March/April issue of Paper Crafts magazine, we celebrated that trendy fact in our product-based feature entitled In My Beautiful Balloon on pages 64-72.


Here are a few of my moxie fab favies from the issue:

Enjoy the Journey Card by Courtney Kelley, p. 70

Sending You Sunshine Card by Michele Boyer, p. 68

Big Birthday Wishes by Julie Campbell, p. 71

Vintage Birthday Balloon Card by Vanessa Menhorn, p. 69

Quilted Balloon Card by Kalyn Kepner, p. 72

Aren't those fun, friends? And to inspire you even further, here are some moxie fab hot air balloon yummies from the big, wide world:

Image via Pinterest

Image from Etsy

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Image from Mint

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Image via Pinterest

Image from Etsy

Image from Etsy

Image via Pinterest

 Image from Etsy

Whaddayatink? Can you come up with a moxie fab approach to hot air balloons for this challenge? Whether your style is fun and cute, classy and elegant, clean and graphic, shabby chic, or vintage there's a balloon out there for everyone! And don't forget--it's fairly simple to create your own pattern for a shape such as this, so if you don't have any hot air balloon product lying around, don't hesitate to be inventive!

Here's all the information you'll need to fly as high as the sky:
  • Create a paper crafted project (card, gift bag, tag, layout, home decor item, mini-book cover, etc.) that incorporates a hot air balloon(s) in an innovative way.
  • Upload it to your blog, click on the title of that post, copy the URL, and add it to Mr. Linky below.
  • Tell your readers that you've created your project for the In My Beautiful Balloon Challenge in the Moxie Fab World and link it back to this post to encourage your readers to play along as well.
  • If you don't have a blog, upload your project to this flickr gallery, copy the URL to your project, and add it to Mr. Linky below.
  • Upload your projects by midnight EST on Monday, April 18.
  • The winning entries will be shown on this blog on Wednesday, April 20 and will receive an "I'm Moxie Fab" challenge winner button as well as a moxie fab prize.

Up, up, and away!

~Cath

51 comments:

Bellaidea said...

Greatidea! Thay are so cool!
Regards,
http://bellaideascrapology.blogspot.com

GabrielaD said...

Fun Challenge. Thanks for the inspiration!

Jean said...

Love these!!

Linda Beeson said...

I just love fads! Hot Air Balloons are the cutest accent and your examples are GREAT!!!

ScrapMomOf2 said...

"Come with me to touch the sky" . . . I love that!!

photochic said...

I love the little balloon card by Kalyn, so I made onw of my own! Thanks for the challenge!

Jamie said...

Thanks for such a fun Challenge Cath!!

Noreen said...

These are some wonderful balloon images!

Angela Fehr said...

I was very inspired by the first inspiration image you showed and had to play along! Fun!

cmatthews said...

Great challenge. Loved it.

Addy Wyonch said...

I love balloons so I was inspired by this challenge.

Noelle said...

Such beautiful inspiration pics! LOVE the challenge! :)

Heather (goldiecar) said...

I LOVED this challenge, and even hand-pieced my embellishment!! LOVE!

onecraftymama said...

I love seeing what everyone's created... lovely challenge (totally saw this one coming!)

Pam said...

Thanks for the inspiration!!

Christine Traversa said...

so much fun, thanks, Cath!

Amanda Sevall said...

Cute cards - love it!

Suzanne C said...

What a great inspiration. Had to give it a try!

joeygirl86 said...

Awesome challenge!!

Alanna Harris said...

Oh that was fun!!

Kelly said...

Great challenge.

Ellie A. said...

Throwing my little card into the mix. Love all the inspiration.

Annette Witherspoon ♥ said...

Just added my submission and I must say it was F-U-N! Or should I be cheesy and say "It was so uplifting." :-)

Kathi said...

Fun challenge! I need to get out some of my other hot air balloon stamps and create another card!

Debbie Carriere said...

Fun challenge!!! Love balloons & it was so fun to create a card with them :)

Diana Fisher said...

I love hot air balloons (on paper... not really ever gonna ride one, lol). I'm all linked up!

Gerri Herbst said...

I adore hot air balloons, even had aone land next to our house!

Karolyn at Paper Therapy said...

Another fantastic challenge, Cath! I really enjoyed working on this one!! All of the inspiration you provided for us served to really fire up my creative juices!!

kiesa said...

If I were braver I would take a ride in a hot air balloon. For now I'll enjoy them on paper!

deana said...

Love this challenge & I finally took some time to play along!

Thanks for the inspiration! :-)

Opus36 said...

Thanks for another challenge, Cath!

Theresa said...

Thanks for a fun challenge. Finally took the time to enter one of your fab challenges.

Diana said...

Such a fun challenge, Cath! Linked up my entry.

Erica Hettwer said...

Oh, that was fun! I had this idea in my head and was so excited when it worked!! LOL! Thanks for the fun challenge!

Gladys said...

oh i love hot air ballon! so fun!

suzARTe said...

I just love hot air balloons. Thanks so much for the inspiration and enjoyable challenge

Margie H said...

My first challenge ever with Moxie Fab World - so excited to play :)

Thanks for the inspiration!!

Karen Day said...

I didn't find this challenge until I'd finished my card! I wish I'd seen all this wonderful inspiration beforehand :o)

Meg said...

I think this may be my first Moxie Fab challenge...I just had to play since I got engaged in one!

curlyqmosaics said...

I just uploaded my creation! Thanks for the challenge, so fun!

And a sincere thank you for all the inspiration and visual stimulation you give us on a daily basis! :)

Donna B. said...

OK, I finally got my card done for this contest - just in time. It was another fun one!!

Jess said...

Love this challenge! All these balloons are so dreamy!

Kathy (krolski) said...

Great challenge! I posted mine.

Manhattan Mandie said...

Great challenge! I posted mine in the Flickr group!

Nancy B. aka Jean said...

I love all the great creations. Using those cool Balloon Stamps and images.

Thanks for the challenge!

Sylvia said...

I am never prepared for the balloon challenge! So, this was lots of fun creating my own Bunny Express! Got to have an imagination to get through this life!

Anna said...

I've been wanting to use my hot air balloon stamp since I bought it and couldn't figure it out. So today I got to figure it out- thanks for the Challenge!

pocketofsun said...

Forgot to leave a comment. Thanks for the great challenges and chances to win great prizes.

Greta H said...

Wasn't sure I could come up with something for chevrons, but I did! Thanks for the challenge!

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