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Valentine’s Hot Air Balloon

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We’ve got lots of LOVE floating around  today for the Cooking with Cricut Love Song Blog Hop!  All of us designers have come up with some great Valentine’s Day projects inspired by their favorite love songs.

 The only song that kept playing in my head as a love song was  the original “Love is in the Air” song.  You know that  song by John Paul Young back in 1978.  I was 4.  The other cheesy song that ran  through my head was “The Love Boat“.  Yep, I’m a 70’s child and I still dig the music.

I do have LOVE in the air though.  Literally, look what I made!  A Valentine’s Hot Air Balloon all made out of paper….Eeeeek!

Valentine's Hot Air Balloon with a cute little owl in a basket all made with the Cricu die cutting machine. Such a unique Valentine's Decor idea!

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Valentine’s Hot Air Balloon

I recently posted about a “happy little accident” that I made called  The Best Kisses are Chocolate?

Well, this Valentine’s Hot Air Balloon  is the top part of a cupcake cut file that I cut wrong.    Since  top and bottom  sections of the cupcake were cut at different sizes, they wouldn’t fit together properly so  instead of throwing out the whole project, I turned the bottom part into a candy bowl and the top part into a Hot Air Balloon.  Sometimes I am amazed at how my brain thinks of things.

 

Here’s how I used my Cricut to make a a Valentine’s Hot Air  Balloon:

 

Cricut Cupcake Box top turned in to a Hot Air Balloon

 

Sweet Tooth Boxes- Top part of the cupcake cut out as large as it would size on the mat.   This images shows you what the top cut looks like on the Cricut mat.

Valentine's Hot Air Balloon made out of paper

 

I used the Ribbons and Rosettes to cut out the Scalloped border.  The Alpahalicious cartridge to make the Scalloped Circle and Layer and the Sweethearts cartridge to cut out the Love sentiment

I then  hand cut  out 5-wedges (approx 5″ long to 4-3″ wide) to make the bottom part of the balloon.  My original idea was to cut apart the bottom of the cupcake at the separations instead of gluing them together but since my measurements were already off, I just hand cut the wedges on this balloon. My idea would of totally worked if I had the proper size too.

 

Valentine's Hot Air Balloon with a cute little owl in a basket all made with the Cricu die cutting machine. Such a unique Valentine's Decor idea!

The Valentine’s Hot Air Balloon basket is cut from the Sweet Treats cartridge and embossed with a burlap texture folder.  The adorable out is cut from the Hoot-n-Holler Lite cartridge and I used the Doodlecharms cartridge to make the heart and layer which are also stamped with a Valentine’s sentiment.

Click on image to view the project I made out of the other half of the cupcake box:
Chocolate Kiss Labels

 

Comments

  2. Oh my stinkin’ heck, Holly!! This is AWESOME! What a wonderful accident — I love every bit of it, escpecially that little owl. Too cute 🙂

    ~ Jen

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  3. Oh my GOODNESS Holly!!! That is SOOO adorable! I LOVE when our mistakes render awesome creations like this! I LOVE it!! (especially the owl…but I have a love for owls) 😉

    Hugs,
    Michelle

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  8. omg Holly thank you so much for joining my challenge this week with your unsurpassed design. I hardly know where to begin to comment. I do remember that song and you have capture it brilliantly in your hot air balloon. It also reminds me of the song from the Fifth Dimension up up away……
    Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
    We could float among the stars together, you and I
    For we can fly we can fly
    Up, up and away
    My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
    The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
    Karen

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  10. OMG! Holly, this project is ridiculous! Ridiculously awesome that is! Did you come up with this when you were working out? Way to go! Smiles, Jill

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  19. Love the hot air balloon!! Never have been on one, but always thought they were romantic. Maybe someday I will go up in one with my sweetie and float amoung the clouds with no interruptions…

    Linda

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  25. WOW!!! What an incredibly unique and BEAUTIFUL project. Way to flex your creative muscle. This is awesome.

    Thank you for joining us at Creative Cutter Room!

    Tonya
    CCR DT
    ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com

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  28. Holy Moly Holly! This is amazing! Way to set the bar high for the rest of us! lol! I LOVE how you creatively used your “mistakes” to make something so fabulous. I am in AWE!:)
    Nita

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  45. Holly!!! I don’t know what happened! My comment should have been right under Jen’s!!! I promise I took the time to tell you how AMAZING your happy accident was!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this hot air balloon! I am SO GOING to do this….someday 🙂

    Thank you for such an amazing project and for sharing your super duper creativity! I love the owl in the basket too!!! Perfect touch!

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  46. WOW Holly that is amazing! It is just so darn cute and you are truly amazing for turning your “accident” into something so cute. BTW-that song is now in my head!

    Debbie B.

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  52. Such a wonderful project, I “love” it.

    Thank you for playing along with us at Frosted Designs this week with our challenge of “LOVE”, I hope you come back and play again!!

    Erin Reed

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