The Card Concept - Travel at Home or Abroad

Welcome to another inspiration challenge with The Card Concept. This time around we have two pictures for you to choose from to jump-start your creativity (we'll be doing this every second challenge).

Option 180a is travel abroad themed, while 180b is travel at home. You pick whichever one inspires you!

For my mixed media card I picked travel abroad focusing on London, which is one of the destinations shown in the pic and one of my all-time favourite places to visit. 

I liked the colours of both options so used a combination of these, giving everything but my focal image a sepia tint to tie them together and help the stylised scene to really pop. The map in the background is an actual old map of London.

Materials used:

• card - black, kraft, basic white
• Tim Holtz dies - Specimen, Postale
• other TH products - Backdrops Vol 1, quote chip, Eccentric rub-ons, vintage collage medium, gauge dials, tarnished brass distress paint, distress crayons in vintage photo and walnut stain, vintage photo archival ink, thought token, jump ring, salvaged tags, Memoir ephemera pack, arrow adornment
• other - Big Shot, rub-on tool, sponge dauber, paintbrush, crop-o-dile, string, craft foam, Dimensionals, mounting strips, corner rounder punch

I hope you'll be inspired to make your own card based on option a or b and share it with us in our gallery. Do take a look at the gorgeous creations my fellow team members have made over on The Card Concept blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept Challenge - Vintage Style

This week over at The Card Concept we're giving you a vintage style challenge. Here's the inspiration pic to fire up your creative juices:

I took the bird and florals as my inspiration and kept mainly to the predominantly neutral colour scheme of the cushions for my shabby layered card. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Field Notes (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous)
• card - basic black, Natural Mini Collection (49 and Market), Bird Ballad DSP (SU retired), basic white
• other - fancy scallop stitched rectangle die (Scrapdragon), faceted dots (SU), sponge dauber, craft foam, mounting tape, Dimensionals, distressing tool, scissors 

There's plenty more samples for you to see over at The Card Concept blog and hopefully you'll be inspired to join the challenge - we'd love to see your creation in our gallery!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Aged to Perfection

For last month's card classes we had a vintage theme and these are the cards we made:

Materials used:

• stamps - Best of Butterflies
• card - crumb cake, very vanilla, Graphic 45 Secret Garden dsp
• other - pearls, Big Shot, dimensionals, sponge daubers
• non SU - Gesso, nestabilities dies, copics

The papers were a little bright for what I had in mind, so I brushed them with Gesso which tones down the colours and also adds a lovely canvas-type texture to the paper.

Next I tried out a vintage masculine card using SU's World Map and Open Sea stamps.

Materials used:

• stamps - Open Sea, World Map, Happiest Birthday Wishes, canvas background 
• card - crumb cake, basic black, very vanilla
• other - twine, dimenionals, sponges, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches

For the last card we used the emboss resist technique over the dsp to age it a little more - it looks a lot like some old wallpaper my ladies thought! The rose was made with two toning colours of cardstock, one of which is core'dinations card and was sanded back for a distressed look. More crinkling of seam binding - this time always artichoke - similar to the card in my last post.

Materials used:

• stamps - Simply Sketched, Tres Chic
• card - raspberry ripple, very vanilla, always artichoke, primrose petals, Vintage something retired dsp (can't remember the name!)
• other - pearls, deco labels framelits, Big Shot, always artichoke seam binding, dimensionals, sanding set
• non SU - roses die, rose petals punch and embossing punch, hot glue gun

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kez