This is a card I made for my youngest daughter when she went travelling recently. I wanted to create a 'Good Luck on your Travels' card with a vintage theme so I mixed stamps from my stash, some I've had for years and some that were bought more recently. The newer additions to my stash are from Crafter's Companion and Sheena Douglass; Time Flies from the Times Gone By collection, and City in the Clouds from the A Little Bit Magical collection. I used Distress Inks: Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo and Walnut stain, and Vintage Sepia Versafine ink. To create the background panel I took a piece of white card and blended the DI's all over it. I gave the panel a quick blast with a heat gun then used water to faux bleach it. I then stamped the image of a map using the Vintage Sepia ink, stamped several travel related words randomly over the panel and blended Walnut Stain DI around the edges. I matted the panel onto dark card and attached it to the base card. On another piece of white card I stamped several images in Versafine ink and heat embossed them in clear powder. I used DI to colour the images before cutting them out, and added Glossy Accents to the compass and fobwatch to represent the glass covers. When dry I attached all the embellishments to the card with dimensional glue. I then took a piece of acetate and stamped the word 'Journey' and heat embossed with gold powder before cutting it out and attaching to the card. I really like this card, it has the vintage feel that I wanted and I like the 'old map' background panel.
This is a great card for your daughter. You really captured the feel of old postcards and the old style trunks people used. Love it
ReplyDeleteHi Birgit, thank you very much :) I wanted my daughter to take a bit of home with her on her travels xx
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