This is such a great color combo and I missed doing the featured stamper on Sunday, so I combined the two. I love Mary Jo's gallery and this card in particular just really spoke to me: from a HUGE garden by mary jo albright at Splitcoaststampers
Of course it's hardly recognizable now, but that is what I cased. I just loved the out of the box frame things she had going. I changed the stamps, the colors and the theme but kept her layout and frame boxes.
To me, these colors looked like they'd make a great guy card and I happen to need a bday card for my BIL. He's such an old car buff, I thought this would be perfect. He has maybe four old cars. Two are sorta classic, two are just old. I think he'd still be driving the beat up Vega he had in school if a lady hadn't totaled it for him.
Anyway, I stamped the car w/ black onto white c/s, colored just a tad and added some Twinkling H2O highlights (you probably can't see them here). I used part of the Happy Birthday sign stamp. My river rock clone is virtually identical to SU. I happened to have it, so that's what I used.
The stripe bg, I used a wide stripe stamp (DRS) and the chalk ink (also indistinguishable from river rock color). Then a thin stripe (A. Watkins) w/ coal ink. Added some dots w/ black glaze and white gel. TFL
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 GMT Views: 1535
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Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 8:08 PM
Oh my, is this ever great. I hate to admit this, but I believe this is a '57 hardtop! (ssshhhh....dont tell anyone, but that was the very first car I drove). yikes, just gave away my age. This is so special and so wonderful for this challenge and your BIL.
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Registered: November 1, 2004 Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Posts: 9611
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 8:51 PM
WOW!! Absolutely perfect guy card! Those dots just stand right out, they remind me of a moving neon light especially with the sentiment done in arrows. This is just fabulous..love the out of the box design! I hope your BIL appreciates it!
Registered: February 1, 2005 Location: Temple, Tx Posts: 37720
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 9:46 PM
WOW...a '57 Chevy!! My boyfriend in 12th grade had a black and white '57 Chevy...brings back lots of memories, tfs!! I love this card....such a fabulous design!! Love the dp, layers, and all the awesome dots, too!!
Registered: July 1, 2007 Location: small town near montreal, quebec Posts: 26677
Sat, Mar 01, 2008 @ 4:18 AM
Hey, this is refined work. I just love the car it looks like it's in a show room and it is sort of...here. I love what you did with the background. I'm faving this one for my bil. TFS