Bon Voyage Bicycle Trip

The Tour De France is wrapping up today and reminded me of my friend who's an avid bicyclist and fan.  I know she's going on an end-of-the-summer bicycle rally to the Interior of the Province, so I thought it would be nice to make a Bon Voyage card  for her.

In keeping with the real competition, I wanted my card to have a vintage European flair, so I chose rich dark colours for the layers and I needed just the right stamp set to achieve the old world look.  And, after searching through my stamp sets I chose Postage Due because of the French Script in the background and the beautiful bicycle image.  It seemed fitting.

Here's My Card: 

Supplies: 
Ink:  Mossey Meadow and Hello Honey
Card Stock:  Crumb Cake, Mossey Meadow and Hello Honey
Stamps:  Postage Due and World Tour
Accessories:  Big Shot, Trimmer, Designer Frames Embossing Folder,  Beautifully Baroque, 3/4" circle punch, 1" and 1 1/4" square punches, Crumb Cake 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon, Dimensionals and Adhesive.

Postage Due is a 4 piece stamp set that comes in Clear Mount (126397), Wood Mount (132064) and A Brush Stroke set for My Digital Studio.  It coordinates with the Postage Stamp Punch on page 222.

 How It Came Together:

The card base is a standard A2 size in Crumb Cake.  This was topped with a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Mossey Meadow cardstock.  I double embossed a 5 x 4" piece of Hello Honey cardstock with the Beautiful Baroque and Rectangular Designer Frames* Embossing folders and cut this piece down to 3 1/2" x 4".  From the remaining Hello Honey cardstock I  punched out three 1 1/4" square pieces and mounted three of the bicycle images with dimensionals on top of them.

** Although the Designer Frames Embossing folders have been retired, they've been replaced by some really cute ones called "Fun Frames".  Check them out on page 227 of the catalogue. 

These three portions of the bicycle were stamped on Crumb Cake cardstock and punched out with a 1" square punch.  The edges were sponged with Hello Honey ink and then they were mounted with dimensionals on a 1 1/4" piece of the embossed Hello Honey cardstock. 

The inside of the card was lined with a piece of 5" x 3 3/4" Crumb Cake cardstock that was stamped with the Bon Voyage stamp from the World Tour stamp set (retired.) I stamped the image again on Hello Honey and cut the  "Bon Voyage" from this piece and glued it onto the center of the stamped image, for some focal interest.  I also added a 1/4" piece of Mossey Meadow cardstock on the right hand side of the card.

I used two stamps from the World Tour and the Postage Due stamp for the Envelope details.  On the bottom left hand side of the card you can see the 3/4" circle - it was stamped on Crumb Cake and then punched out with the 3/4" circle punch and added with dimensions to the card front.  The complete image of that stamp is also featured on the bottom left hand corner of the envelope.

So what do you think?  Do you like this card?  If so leave me a comment and let me know what you like most about it.  Thanks for dropping by.

Happy Stamping!
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Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch #46 - Postage Card

Today I was browsing the Paper Craft Crew Challenge site and saw this week's great sketch.   

I liked this sketch for it's sheer simplicity, and it made me think of a post card.  Almost immediately I experienced an "Ah-hah" moment knowing what I wanted to create with it and headed for my craft room to dig through my supplies.

One of my first purchases from the new Stampin' Up! 2013-2014 Catalogue was the Post Card Back Ground stamp on page 102.  Since the sketch reminds me of a post card I figured this would work perfectly and what a great opportunity to add ink to this new stamp. 

Postage Card Back Ground Stamp which measures 5 x 3 1/2"

My next big decision was what card stock to use.  I wanted a vintage post card look in keeping with the stamp, so I decided to use the colours from  the Create with Connie and Mary's Color Challenge #256  this week which features Island Indigo, Summer Starfruit and Early Espresso. 

 

I didn't have any current postage stamp stamps so went with the one in the Fresh Vintage Stamp set (retired).  Believe me my next order will include something with stamps, either the set called Postage Due, which includes 3 wonderful stamps or Postage Collection  a 16 piece stamp set from the Hostess Stamps collection in this year's catalog.  This set includes 3 really neat postage stamp frames and you can design the stamp contents with any of the other images in the set.  Ask me how you can earn this set for free! 

Stamps:  Fresh Vintage (SAB) and Post Card Background Stamp #130369

Card Stock:  Island Indigo for Base (5 1/2" x 11), Summer Starfruit for 1st layer (5 1/4" x 4" embossed with Beautifully Baroque EF, Naturals Ivory  #102316, and Early Espresso.

Inks:  Island Indigo, Summer Starfruit, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake

Accessories: 3/8" Glimmer Brads (121003 Basics), Postage Stamp Punch #122344, Early Espresso Ribbon (retired), Beautifully Baroque Embossing Folder #130917(new), paper piercing tool, adhesive and dimensionals.