Saturday, May 29, 2010

College bound

I don't know anyone who is college bound this year, but I do have a fun card for the occassion. I love this bug image paired with road map patterned paper (I did a similar card with this combo a few posts back). The patterned piece I used today is also from October Afternoon, but from an earlier line called Road Map. I was originally going to use this car for a baby card, but then I decided the colors were more collegiate than baby so I stamped a new license plate, cut it out an adhered it on top of the old one. Then, I found some clear domed stickers in my stash that were the perfect size to fit over the headlights. Last, I adhered a piece of black scrap cardstock to a scrap of blue and then die cut it to the shape I wanted. It's easier to do it that way than to cut them seperately and try to line it up later. I made the white lines on the road with a stamp from Faux Ribbon and used dimensional adhesive to adhere my car to the die cut.

Papertrey Ink-stamps (enjoy the ride, faux ribbon), ribbon (pure poppy), cardstock (pure poppy, true black, white), button (true black), twine, ink (true black), die (car)

Stampin Up-ink (white), cardstock (baja breeze, soft sky)

October Afternoon-patterned paper(road map)

Nestabilities-labels 1

Copic Markers

Cloud Nine-rain dots (clear dome stickers)

12 comments:

Diane Jaquay said...

How awesome that you used a map as a background for this stamp set, just perfect!!

Elizabeth S. said...

Fantastic card! I love the map paper and your road under the bug!

Monica K. said...

This is so clever! Love how you added the map background and the colors are great too!

Unknown said...

I love the road under the car - what an inspired idea!

Debbie Gaydos said...

DANG, that's so cute! I didn't look twice at that stamp set, but I keep seeing projects with it that are awesome, I might have to take a closer look at it. ;)

Jen Carter said...

This is so cute! Love the road and the paper, they just add the perfect touch!

Kara said...

cute,cute!

Barbara said...

Oh, this is great! Love that image on the map paper! Too fun!

Laurie said...

OMG this is cute! I love the map! What a fun idea!

Keva said...

I love it! The ma background and the "road" under the car are just perfect!

Lisa Voerg said...

What a great idea for the college bound student. Love your design.

Tigriswillreign said...

This is stunning! I love the shading on your car!