Cloud celebration

A CAS card for two CAS challenges today: CASOLOGY's #308 'Cloud'  and CAS(E) this Sketch's #281. 
I imagine I'll use this as a baby card, but I kept the sentiment a little more generic to broaden the card's potential.
There's something so calming, for me, about sponging clouds onto paper. I should do it more often!

Ingredients:
Stampin' Up ink (Soft Sky, Watermelon Wonder, Basic Black, Smoky Slate), card (Shimmery White, Soft Sky), stamps (Balloon Celebration, Thoughtful Banners (sentiment)), thinlits (Up and Away to make a mask to sponge).
Other products: American Craft twine, Rosies stamp - 'spread your beautiful wings'.

Balloon Congratulations

The lovely crisp colours of Global Design Project's GDP#073:

 leant themselves to a crisp, simple design. I found such a design in CAS(E) this Sketch's #208:

I absolutely love the clouds in Stampin' Up's Lift Me Up stamp set, so took the cloud in the sketch literally. I returned to an old favourite, Balloon Celebration, for the balloons, and used a New Zealand koru pattern to emboss. I ended up sponging ink onto white card for the balloons to get the right depth of colour, and I heat embossed the sentiment in black just to add an extra crispness. 

Made Using:
Stampin' Up: Whisper White and Basic Black Paper: Lift Me Up and Balloon Celebration stamp sets, baker's twine, Watermelon Wonder, Daffodil Delight and Emerald Envy inks.
Craft Creations: New Zealand koru embossing folder
American Crafts: Black glitter finish embossing powder.