Something Old, Something....Old!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "Embrace the old!".  I have a friend who is travelling to New York to see some Broadway shows on her birthday soon, so I decided to combine those two elements into a card for her.  The old tickets and old travel ads were perfect for this week's theme!

I started with a section cut from the Destinations paper stash and used Promarkers to colour the headings at the top of the page.  I used some gesso to lighten a section so that the "enjoy the journey" stamp would show more boldly.

The theatre tickets were stamped and cut out, then coloured with Promarkers and arranged then fixed to the background.

She's going to have a wonderful trip, hopefully this card will be one of the souvenirs that will help her to remember it in the future!

Supplies I used included:

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Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

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It's great to be grateful!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "Thank You".  I don't know about you, but I love typography - in fact, I'd say I looooooooove it, and I can spend hours sifting through font sites drooling over all the goodies that are available!  I decided to make a bold typographic statement with this card, though it didn't quite turn out the way I had planned.

Originally, I was going to colour the letters but after stamping them I decided I really liked the in-your-face starkness of the black and white characters and left them as they were.  It also makes for a great contrast with the richly coloured background, so RESULT! :)  In case you were wondering, the font is Rockwell Extra Bold, though I think I stretched it vertically a little before cutting it out on my Cricut.

I started out by stamping the number background in black and then coloured it by playing whach-a-mole on my card with some colours of Distress Stains.  After cutting out the letters and the shadow layer, I stamped on the letters with the Going Somewhere, Dance Card and Steampunk stamp sets.  The whole thing was matted onto black card and then onto my white card blank. I think if you're going to say "thank you", you might as well say it as loudly as you can, and I think this card certainly does that! :)

Supplies I used included:

InLinkz.com

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

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Rust is the new black

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "rustification".  I took my inspiration from the rusty colours of autumn leaves.  I used scores of buttons in autumnal colours to recreate the feel of a carpet of leaves.  I had collected some real leaves to feature on the card, but after they had dried out they were a little smelly, too much so to use them!

I used a range of different patterned papers for the buttons and luckily the Martha Stewart buttons punch can cut out 5 at a time, which greatly speeded up the process!  The "thread" was created with a Walnut Stain Distress Marker.

The tickets were cut from Tattered Time card stock, and the stamps from Ali Edwards were the perfect size to fit nicely onto them.  The ribbon is a piece that has been kicking around in my craft room for a few years, it's very thick and is brown on one side, white on the other, with a brown and white edging.  I can't even remember where it came from, but it was perfect for this card.

Supplies I used included:

InLinkz.com

Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

Don't forget, Simon Says Stamp have a great Facebook page too!  Check them out here!