Cinema Saturday #74 - UP!!

Every Saturday, over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog, we feature a different movie from which we create a card, layout etc. inspired by some element in the movie. This week we are featuring the 2 time Oscar winning and "UPlifting" 2009 Pixar movie called UP. This movie also won 38 other awards (check out all of the wins and nominations here)!!! The beauty of this movie is that its not just for children, but really in a way - its for everyone. Children love this movie and the adults really embrace the heartfelt themes of life and love that are beautifully brought out in this movie! If you haven't seen it yet - you must - the animation, humor and sweetness will touch your hearts! This week's challenge requirement is to use balloons in a way that was inspired by the movie.

When I was making the challenge banner for this movie - my son was sitting next to me and was so excited as to what card I was going to make - so I made this card for him - in the spirit of adventure. I used Taylor's Friday Sketch challenge #108 to make this card, which I absolutely had so much fun creating! One of my favorite parts of the movie is when the house takes off - WOW! How beautifully they animated that part and the music to that part is just perfect! It gives me a thrill every time I watch it! My other favorite part is when Mr. Fredrickson puts the special pin on Russell at the end - what a sweet moment (and can I just say, that Russell is one of the CUTEST little boys! I LOVE his spirit of adventure and his sweetness! and his slight lisp :)))
I used 5 different stamps from Taylored Expressions to create this card:

• The house is from the Frightful Night stamp set
• The clouds are from the Branching Out Coordinates stamp set
• The birds are from the Wings of Joy stamp set
• The balloons are from the Beary Special Accessories stamp set
• The sentiment is from the Places You'll Go stamp set

It was so much fun combining all of these stamp sets to create this card:

Here is a close up of the sentiment. I love this sentiment by Dr. Seus! It has so much spiriti of adventure in it!

And I loved making this card with all the ballooons carrying the house, just like he wanted :) I attached some embroidery floss to the balloons and attached them to the house.Here is a close up of the balloons and string:
I wanted to give some whimsy to the card (because a house being carried off by balloons wasn't whimsy enough :) lol!!) So I added some birdies to the mix, here is a close up of a birdie flying by :)

I LOVE how this card came out - I added a little glaze and some stickles to the card and called it a late late night...errr.. day :) Hop on over to the Taylored Expressions blog to see more details of this beautiful sketch and also hop on over to the Cinema Saturday Blog - we have three wonderful guest designers joining us this week, and you can see their gorgeous and inspiring samples and play along with us!!!

I promise it will be fun to play along - putting balloons on anything makes it fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!
Hope you have a beautiful weekend!!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)

KW Color Inspriation #46 - Congratulations Card

Good Friday Morning Everyone,

Check out these awesome colors that Kristina picked for this week's color inspiration challenge #46. I had to play - there was something so fresh about the pattern - love these colors together...!

The colors for this week challenge are: basic black, riding hood red, regal rose, pretty in pink and bashful blue. What an intresting color combo to have some more of the lighter colors with the bolder color of the red and black! I haven't had much time to play/craft as I would have liked - this week has just been really busy at work. But there was a little pocket last night when I was taking a break from folding laundry, that I thought I could play along. So I made this quick little fun card:

Card Details: 

Paper - everything is from my scrap stash - no idea where any paper comes from

Ink: Staz-on Black, Versamark with clear EP

Stamps: Congrats set from Sale-a-bration! (Love it!!!), SU! stamp with dots - not sure from where - that i used to create a background with a stampamajig  (embossed with clear EP)

Accessories: Corner rounder, button from stash, square punches from Creative Memories, butterflies from a Creative Memories medow punch

Show Watched: Remington Steele on Hulu (oh yea!! )

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner!

Hope your friday is filled with happiness, laughter and cupcakes!

Ciao for now!

Sankari :)