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Challenge: Oh The Places You'll Go!

5/18/2016

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Frilly & Funkie,, one May 18, 2016, is thinking travel this week. We are to "create a vintage or shabby chic project with travel as the central theme. Think planes, trains, auto-mobiles, ships, maps, globes."

​Well, as much as I would LIKE to be traveling abroad (which is what most of my travel-related stamps and papers portray), that is not in the cards for this year. In fact, a road trip to Louisville, Kentucky is the only travel in the foreseeable future. So...

​I found  sheet of double-sided paper in the Authentique "Abroad Collection" that is US-oriented, cut it to size;layered it with a dark blue card form the same collection and made my card base:
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While the destinations pictured on this paper are not on our itinerary, It felt more road trip to me and, besides, most of it will be covered when I'm done!

I pulled out ephemera and stamps from my stash and came up with a collage of sorts to illustrate my destination. First, I used the thinlits die "United States" to get small representations of my home state and the destination state. I placed them on the card face and connected them with a dashed line...
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Then I stamped, colored, distressed, added stickers, outlined and fussy cut images and sentiments that fit my theme and placed them on the card. Finally, I titled the card "Summer Vacation", although the trip really isn't a vacation (we will be attending the 2016 National Hemerocallis Society Conference and I will likely be hotel-bound with several hundred daylily aficionados for the entire four-day stay! - Oh well, I've never been to Louisville, nor stayed in Kentucky for any length of time, so it is a new place to "Go-See-Do"!):
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Products used in making this card were:
  • Dies: Sizzix Thinlits "United States" (660228)
  • Stamps: Kelly Purkey "Hellow Summer" (HL0613); Imaginisce "Every Day..." (400559) and "Compass Rose" (400558); Stampin' Up! "Wish You Were Here!"
  • Inks and other pigments: Archival "Jet Black"; Distress Marker "Black Soot"; Distress Inks "Old Paper" and :Blueprint Sketch"; Marvy Uchida "Liquid Gold" and "Liquid Silver"; Unibazl Signo "Broad white";  Pigma Micron "black"; Inktense Pencils "Cherry" (0510), "Madder Brown" (1920) and :Baked Earth" (1800)
  • Papers: Authentique "Abroad Collection"   2-sided paper ("Dart" ABR 021 and "Memo" ABR 005); scrap dark green and scrap white
  • Embellishments: Authentique "Abroad Collection" stickers ("Elements" ABR 011); Idea-ology Ephemera Pack "Expedition" (TH93115)
  • Adhesives: Ranger Collage Glue Stick; Viva Las Vegas "Miracle Tape"
3 Comments
Nancy Dynes link
5/31/2016 08:56:13 pm

Such a lovely travel themed project!! Thank you so much for joining us at the Frilly and Funkie Challenge!
Hugs,
Nancy

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kathy/NorthCarolina link
6/1/2016 02:33:25 am

You did a great job with this travel theme! And there are so many lovely places to see in the USA, it's a perfect travel destination, even if it is home sweet home. Thanks for sharing with us at Frilly and Funkie "Oh the Places You'll Go" Challenge!

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Jenny Marples link
6/1/2016 01:57:58 pm

This is such a great project Carol! Love how imaginative and personal you've been with the theme. Thank you for joining us at Frilly and Funkie xx

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    Born in New Jersey, I grew up in Southeastern Ohio. Attended university at Bowling Green State University (B.Sci  in biological science, 1964), University of Southern California (M. Sci in biological science, 1967) and University of Florida (Ph. D in zoology, 1971).
    Worked in environmental consulting for a little more than a decade and then seven years as an instructor in biological science at various community colleges in California and Texas. Moved to London in 1992, then Beijing (1996) and Saudi Arabia (1998), before returning to NW Ohio in 2002. I am currently living in NW Ohio with my husband and three Bombay cats.  I love to read (mystery, science fiction, history) and stitch (have done crewel, currently experimenting with free embroidery and needlepoint but blackwork and cross stitch are my main genres); have been known to knit; and now I'm heavily into papercrafting!
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