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: 1543
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Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 2:55 PM
Super duper guy card and so well done. Love the sketch, the dots and the sparkly stuff.
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Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 4:31 PM
What a terrific card! I love how you used the challenge colors on this and how it must SPARKLE IRL! Those cars were so popular when I was in high school. I wish I still had mine!!!
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Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 4:55 PM
what a cool card! Love this great design.. great case!
I like the out of the box look!
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Registered: November 7, 2006 Location: Willamette Valley Oregon Posts: 34504
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 5:18 PM
well, this is a great case of Mary Jo...I love your images and the colors are just perfect for any guy! I like that you made the frames distinct. and it looks as though the car is coming off the page at you. Nicely done!
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Registered: November 4, 2006 Location: Midwest Posts: 24763
Tue, Feb 26, 2008 @ 7:47 PM
So much to love about this one ... the sentiment is just perfect with that classi car and I love how it looks like it is driving right off the card ... great guy card.