Up up and away!!! travel with the artistic stamper and i nearly missed this bus!!!

Hey there,
Well here I am again with a card made and unblogged but my familiar monochrome type style, be warned having found a new found love of colour from doing Tim's course ..details here, there may be a burst of colour coming here soon!!
So here he is, my card I mean!!

I started in my fashion of making a strip of background using distress stains, the more in play with these the more I love them!!!! Then I made paler background using distress inks applied to craft sheet.
I then stamped the compass from indigo blu sheet of stamps to background. Some first and some second generation stamping has been used. the hot air balloon , again from indigo blu was stamped in distress and clear embossed!.I added a sentiment, also from the same sheet and then a hot air balloon charm, from stash.

short and sweet today!!
I am entering this for the following competitions:
travel @ http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/march-challenge-travel.html
monochromatic @ http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
anything goes @ http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/
use a stamp @ http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
use a stamp @ http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
anything goes @ http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

thanks for stopping by,
love all your comments,
have a fab, fun and inky day
hugs trace x