Thursday, January 31, 2019

Geared Up

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   I've got one more card in the series that uses the Classic Garage Suite of products on pages 42 and 43 of the Occasions catalog. If you haven't seen the others that I posted earlier this week, go back and check them out. I'll wait.

Today's card is the final variation on the Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White, touch of silver theme. And it uses another image that I fussy cut from the Classic Garage 6" by 6" Designer Series paper. How cool is this?

I stamped a sentiment from the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto the bottom corner of a 3-3/4" by 5" Whisper White Panel. I embossed a 3-3/4" by 2-1/2" piece of Silver Foil with the Tufted Embossing Folder and adhered this to the left side of the Whisper White panel. I adhered the panel to a 4" by 5-1/4" Basic Black Card Stock mat.

Next I wrapped a length of Black/Silver 1/4" Striped Metallic Ribbon around the right side of the card and cut the end with my Paper Snips. I adhered everything to a Real Red Card Stock card base.

To finish the card, I fussy cut a motor cycle from one of the sheets of the Classic Garage DSP and adhered it to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals. Look! It's doing a wheelie!

You can get the Garage Gears Thinlits and the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set in a bundle (150610)--and save 10% off the price of purchasing them separately. PROTIP: You can cut the printed gears from Classic Garage DSP (148482)--it's a perfect match! And when you purchase the bundle and DSP you'll be set to make some awesome cards AND you will have earned enough to get yourself a FREE Sale-a-Bration item!













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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Where Were You in '62?

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations  If you've been following my blog this week, you'll have seen the first two quick and easy cards I made with the Classic Garage Suite of products in the Occasions catalog. Today's card adds two more elements from this suite: the Classic Garage 6" by 6" Designer Series Paper and the Black/Silver 1/4" Striped Metallic Ribbon. Lookie!


I fussy cut the car from one of the Classic Garage DSP sheets. Isn't she a beauty?! Reminds me of the cars in the "American Graffiti" movie. Right?

 

I used the same color combo on today's card as with the other cards--Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red--with a bit of Smoky Slate and silver.

I stamped the sentiment from the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink on the bottom corner of a 3-3/4" by 5" Whisper White Card Stock panel. I adhered this to a 3-7/8" by 5-1/8" Basic Black Mat. Next, I flagged then end of a 1" by 3-1/2" Real Red Card Stock strip with the Banner Triple Punch. I adhered this to the card and then I adhered a length of the Black/Silver 1/4" Striped Metallic Ribbon, wrapping the left end around the card stock. I then adhered this to a 4" by 5-1/4" Basic Black mat and then adhered everything to a Smoky Slate Card Stock card base.

I love the classic colors and lines of these cars and the simple card layouts, don't you?

Remember, you can get the Garage Gears Thinlits and the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set in a bundle (150610)--and save 10% off the price of purchasing them separately. Add the Classic Garage DSP pack (148482) and you'll be set to make some awesome cards AND you will have earned enough to get yourself a FREE Sale-a-Bration item!














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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The Best Dad

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations  Today's card is super fun and shiny--and it's another "quick and easy" card using the Classic Garage Suite of products. All the cards I'm sharing this week have the same color scheme--Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red--with touches of silver. Take a look at this great card. It reminds me of all the chrome on cars from the 1950s and 1960s.

My dad only bought one new car in his life and that was a 1965 Ford Mustang. Every other car he bought was used. But he loved that new Mustang! The image in the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set is reminiscent of that Mustang and it brings back some happy childhood memories. I remember a trip to Florida that our family took in that car. What fun!

I stamped the car image in Memento Tuxedo Black onto a 3-3/4" by 5" Whisper White panel. Next, I embossed a 3-3/4" by 2-1/2" Silver Foil Sheet with the Tufted Embossing Folder. I adhered this to the Whisper White panel and then wrapped a length of Whisper White Classic Weave Ribbon around to cover the seam. I adhered this to a 4" by 5-1/4" Basic Black Card Stock mat and then onto a Real Red Card Stock card base.

I stamped the "best dad" sentiment from the "Classic Garage" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and cut it out with one of the Garage Gears Thinlits. I cut the Silver Foil and Real Red Card Stock medallion pieces with the same set of Thinlits. I adhered these to the card. Finally, I added three silver Metallic Pearls to the ribbon for some extra interest.

You can get the Garage Gears Thinlits and the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set in a bundle (150610)--and save 10% off the price of purchasing them separately. Add the Silver Foil Sheets (132178) and you'll be set to make some awesome cards AND you will have earned enough to get yourself a FREE Sale-a-Bration item!














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Monday, January 28, 2019

I Got Distracted

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations  Hello there! I know I've been a little sporadic with my blogging lately. That's because it's cold and when I get home from work I just want to curl up under my comforter and watch TV. I've also started to knit, rather obsessively. It all started when I saw an ad on Facebook for a cute knit hat that's open on the top for a ponytail. I thought I could knit that pretty easily--even though I haven't knitted anything for years. Well, I found a quick and easy pattern (you'll see that "quick and easy" is my theme for all crafting) and got to work. I made two ponytail hats as Christmas gifts. My daughter has really short hair, so she needed a different hat--so I knit one for her. And her twin brother couldn't be left out, so I knit one for him, too. Here are all the hats that I made as Christmas gifts.



Once I started knitting, I couldn't stop! I knit a really pretty infinity scarf for my daughter and now I'm in the process of make her a capelet with a hood! Oh! And I started a yearlong project where I'm knitting one row of an afghan every day. The color is chosen by the high temperature of the day. Obviously, it's a work in progress, but here is what January in Maryland has looked like so far.


I'm afraid this new obsession will be creeping into my stamping time--since I can do it while watching TV and snuggled on my bed. But, never fear, I'll still be stamping and sharing several times a week!

This week I've got four quick and easy cards made with the Classic Garage Suite of products from the Occasions catalog.  I love this suite because it reminds me of my dad and all his "grease-monkey" (his term) friends. It reminds me of that time, when I was about 4, and I discovered a puddle of motor oil and saw that shiny liquid rainbow reflecting the cars driving by on the highway. I thought it was a portal into another universe and I stared at it for a long, long time. I can still remember it!

This series of cards uses one of my favorite color combinations--black, white, and red--with a little gray and silver thrown in! Take a look!

I used the Garage Gears Thinlits to cut the gears from a Silver Foil Sheet. The medallion--both the Whisper White and Basic Black parts--was cut with two other thinlits from this set. The sentiment is from the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set and it's stamped in Memento Tuxedo black.

I arranged all these pieces on a 3-3/4" by 5" Real Red Card Stock panel. Then I adhered everything to a 4" by 5-1/5" Whisper White mat and then onto a Smoky Slate Card Stock card base. 

You can get the Garage Gears Thinlits and the "Geared Up Garage" stamp set in a bundle (150610)--and save 10% off the price of purchasing them separately. Add a Classic Garage Card Stock Pack (148483) and you'll be set to make some awesome cards AND you will have earned enough to get yourself a FREE Sale-a-Bration item!

Come back the rest of this week for some more quick and easy and awesome cars made with the Classic Garage Suite!

 
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