Let's take a vacation! So say the Design Team over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, June 19, 2017. They were thinking sunbaked beaches and hammocks hung on palm trees, but we haven't done that kind of vacation since our French Polynesian cruise back in 2015, and even then it was more like deck chairs and glass-bottomed boats. Other than cruises, brief and all-to-infrequent stays at an ocean-view second home (we sold it five or six years ago because we really never had a chance to go that far for just a week), and one-or-two-night visits to friends while on the way to or from a daylily convention, we really haven't taken a vacation of the classic kind (you know, fly or drive to a place you've rented and spend two weeks doing the tourist thing?). So this started out as a "puzzlement"!
I decided to go with a vacation we haven't done, a road trip to visit a friend who recently moved to Montana, that we are tentatively planning for September. After all, from where she lives, there are at least three National Parks within a day's drive and at least two National Monuments on the way - none of which we have ever seen! Great way to mark off our bucket list at least three states we have never been to as well!
I started with making a card base. I die cut a US map from a piece of scrap card (it took three different types of card before I found one that blasted die would actually cut all the way through, and even here, it somewhat distorted Texas!) and used the negative space as a stencil to blend in earth-tone colors, a la those usually seen in satellite photos of the earth. I then place the map outline on the background using collage medium and used that medium to further blend the colors of the background.
I decided to go with a vacation we haven't done, a road trip to visit a friend who recently moved to Montana, that we are tentatively planning for September. After all, from where she lives, there are at least three National Parks within a day's drive and at least two National Monuments on the way - none of which we have ever seen! Great way to mark off our bucket list at least three states we have never been to as well!
I started with making a card base. I die cut a US map from a piece of scrap card (it took three different types of card before I found one that blasted die would actually cut all the way through, and even here, it somewhat distorted Texas!) and used the negative space as a stencil to blend in earth-tone colors, a la those usually seen in satellite photos of the earth. I then place the map outline on the background using collage medium and used that medium to further blend the colors of the background.
I stamped a vehicle in Archival Ink, fussy cut it and doodled color onto it using distress markers, a silver metallic marker (which I also used to denote our starting and ending points) and a white gel pen. I added it to the card (covering the Texas boo boo) along with a drawn "route" which we might take. Finally, I die cut the words "road trip" from two different colors of card, layered them for a drop-shadow effect, and place them on the card:
Products used in the making of this card were
- Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi “Gentleman’s Art” (SCS059)
- Dies: Sizzix Thinlits “United States” (660228) and "Vacation Words: script" (661288)
- Inks:Archival “Jet Black"; Distress Markers “Black Soot”, “Pumice Stone”, “Hickory Smoke”, “Brushed Corduroy”; Distress Inks “Brushed Corduroy”, “Pine Needles”, “Shabby Shutters”, Broken China”, “Mowed Grass”; Signo Uniball pen “white”; MArvy Uchida Fine Line "Liquid Silver" pen
- Papers: Paper Studio Value Pack Notecards “ivory”; scrap white, silver-grey, black and pale blue
- Adhesives: foam dots (make unknown); R=Distress Collage Medium; Xyron 500 Sticker Maker
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