This is my card for Linda's WT challenge this week ~ WT490 Put A Map On Your Card . I have several map stamps, I love using them. But since I had especially saved a couple of real maps when I was helping my sister with sorting out and clearing my dad's old house, I thought I ought to use one of them.
This one worked out well for me to combine with the last of the CCEE Stampers challenges for August. Shirley asked us to use song titles for our inspiration. This is Snoopy "On The Road to Find Out", by Cat Stevens. I thought the song title worked very well with both the sentiment and the card. I was a little bit bummed because the first map background I made, Snoopy was on the road to a copper mine, which was pretty cool. But I stamped the sentiment too close to the edge and when I added the photo corners, they covered the "y" in confidently. There wasn't another copper mine on the old map I was using, sniff. I crumpled and distressed the map - when we hire a motorbike on our Greek holidays, a map is an essential and I always keep it either tucked into the waist of my shorts or sit on it. By the end of the holidays it looks even more crumpled than this one does!
SnoopyÂ’s Chopper stamped on white card, coloured with pencils and cut out. The map was crumpled and wiped with Vintage Photo, Edges sponged with more Vintage Photo, then edged with a black marker. I used some old paper ribbon from gift packaging for the road. The photo corners were punched from an old tomato paste tube, embossed with the Herringbone ef and then sponged with black and turquoise acrylic paints and some gold Treasure Wax. Lastly I added some dots of glossy acrylic paint (Deco Gloss by Lefranc & Bourgeois). There is a sun stamped and embossed in gold under the top left photo corner!!
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105214
Thu, Jul 31, 2014 @ 6:03 AM
This could also have been Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again". Love it with snoopy and the fab map!
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Registered: October 26, 2009 Location: Oakhurst, near Yosemite Nat'l Park. Posts: 46801
Thu, Jul 31, 2014 @ 7:52 AM
Wow Sabrina!! This is so cool!!! Love the map and what you did with it and those photo corners are really awesome!! Snoopy is cool as always and love your ribbon road!! Sorry about the first map but this one is wonderful!
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Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50607
Thu, Jul 31, 2014 @ 9:19 AM
First off, I love Cat Stevens and that song....Everything about this card is perfect..the crumpled map,those awesome corners..the gingham road...FABULOUS card Sabrina!!
Registered: April 4, 2008 Location: Sahuarita, Arizona originally from New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 18436
Thu, Jul 31, 2014 @ 11:37 AM
Sabrina, love the vintage look to your card with the map and the sponging...the gingham paper is perfect as a roadway....love snoopy on the bike.... what a fun and beautiful card... love it...
Registered: March 28, 2011 Location: Novi, Michigan Posts: 11834
Thu, Jul 31, 2014 @ 12:18 PM
This is so cute. I just love your image - it made me smile. Your card has so many fun details that I just love, especially the photo corners. Great job with the challenge!
Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 31156
Thu, Jul 31, 2014 @ 3:09 PM
Looks like Snoopy and his pal are off to some far away places! So cute to have a real map and a cartoon character on the same card, Sabrina! Very well done~
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