Congratulations to vickydee as our Featured Stamper this week - FS794.
I found great inspiration in her Gallery and selected Keep on Rolling by vickydee at Splitcoaststampers to case for the Challenge because of (1) my nostalgic affection for the VW bus of my childhood PLUS (2) the many years of lakeside camping with my DH. Nowadays we camp at a hotel!
My bus is parked (not mobile like the one Vicky made). I added etching so it would look more like the camp images, and placed it in the background (rather than foreground) due to comparative size and scale. After deciding to pop-up the tent, I stamped just the bottom detail again on the background and then adhered the tent to fit over the stakes and ties.
I tried adding clouds by cutting away some of the blue and letting the card base show through. I should have stamped the water before adding the cutouts (oh well). I tried to fill in with marker but they are never the exact color as the pads. This definitely is a card I would not have made without the weekly Challenge, and I love it (so thanks vickydee)!
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105300
Sun, Apr 24, 2022 @ 9:20 AM
Hotel camping is my fav!! I love your VW bus (how cool to have had one!), and the scene you created is wonderful. fab case!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: January 13, 2010 Location: in a constant state of confusion. Posts: 3324
Sun, Apr 24, 2022 @ 6:03 PM
Love this card. You did a fabulous job. Makes me yearn for camping again though when I remember the details of camping with the kids, I recall more wind and rain and mud than sunny days. Nowadays it is hotel stays for us too.
Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 84029
Sun, Apr 24, 2022 @ 6:50 PM
Gayle this is soooo cool. So reminds me of my childhood camping in Northern New Mexico. We had a old camper on a truck (my dad built the camper on it) and a tent - we would have loved a VW bus! Fun times. We camp at the hotel now too. Love how you made that bus fit the other images. Fab case. Hugz
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
Registered: March 13, 2011 Location: Langley, B.C. Canada Posts: 32130
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 @ 11:31 AM
What a wonderful scene you have created here, Gayle. Love your partial stamping on the envelope and I think you worked in the waves just fine seeing through the van's windows!