Air Travel Pocket Card

I recently tidied up my craft trolley which holds my smaller paper pads and odd sheets of patterned papers and rediscovered a Papermania 6X6 pad called All  Aboard. This prompted another travel themed pocket card. The base was cut from a Sizzix pocket card set called Butterfly Cards which gave me the serrated postage stamp effect. I added another of my 'stamps' which tied in with the theme but all the other elements were from the Papermania pad. I punched a hole and added some baker's twine to the tag and mounted the ticket on foam to raise it up. I stamped the word travel and added a little shimmer on the hearts.

New Die!

 I was tempted by a die on ebay. I reasoned that it was a good basic die that would be especially useful for male cards. As soon as it arrived I had to try it out. I used the geometric 3D embossing folder for the background and rubbed it with Nuvo embellishment mousse in Mother of Pearl.

The die is made of 2 parts - the base and the outline. I decided to go for an ombré effect and used my Triblend alcohol marker pen in Jade. I stacked both parts and then added another layer at the bottom. I wanted extra dimension so decided to mount the whole piece on foam pads. It was very fiddly and I don't think I'll be doing that again! Some sequins finished the side fold card.

While I had the die out I made another card with it - this time with the True Blue Triblend marker. I used some old scrapbook paper for the background and cut the stars from a scrap of patterned paper.

Travel Pocket Card

 I realised that it's been a few months since I made a pocket card for my mini album of random things. I figured out that my last trip abroad was a year ago and I guess subconsciously my desire for travel prompted this card. 

It uses a Sizzix die set called Tiny Travel Globe. This has a mini snow globe and tiny travel elements some of which you see here. The pieces are so tiny I found the easiest way to use all the elements was to cut them out from white card and colour the various parts as desired. So I have a London bus, a New York yellow cab, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty I added one of the scrapbook paper 'stamps' that I have and a die cut star shaped clip from a Sizzix set called Noted.  The background is a Cuttlebug embossing folder - Traffic Jam.

Monthly Challenge - February

 

This month the letter is:

                                    I for Insect

Colour options are Indigo and Ivory.

I used an Ivory base card and Indigo on the butterfly. The background was made with a piece of tissue paper which I crumpled, smoothed out and rubbed with speckled egg DI. I used an old stamp from a Katy's Corner grab bag which shows the life cycle of some sort of insect (fly? ant? I have no idea) and a text stamp by Paper Artsy with Memento gray flannel. I mounted this onto the ivory card. The butterfly and flower are from a stamp and die set by Dare 2 B Artzy called Butterfly Tangle. I stamped them both with Versamark and heat embossed with Blonde Moments sweet cool iridescent embossing powder and then coloured them in with alcohol markers. The main quotation is from Darkroom Door's Wildflowers vol 1 stamped with Versafine onyx black and clear heat embossed. Some elements were mounted on foam pads.