The Crafty Den: inking

Good morning lovely friends; I hope you've had a great start to your weekend and of course the added bonus if you live in the UK is an extra day off tomorrow for the Bank Holiday (apologies if you have to work). The sun was actually warm and shiny here yesterday so fingers crossed it appears today; although we can rarely string two days together at the moment.

I am delighted and honoured to be a guest designer over at the We Love Stamping challenge this month so I'll be sharing a card today and also another card in two weeks time. The theme for this month has been chosen by Lynn and is 'Vintage'. There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs courtesy of Lisa Horton Crafts.

Now I have to admit that my heart sank when I read the theme as vintage is not really my thing but hey that is what a challenge is all about isn't it. I used the opportunity to make a birthday card for my Father in Law for this first card and I was really happy with the finished result.

Here is my card:

A close up of the image:

Of course I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the car image onto cream card with a brown ink; I cut it out, inked around the edges and also distressed the edges with a edge distressed (which I did to most of my edges). I stamped the map background in the same way and again inked and distressed the edges. I used a newspaper style patterned paper for my background and added that to my card base with double sided tape. The postcards were cut from a piece of patterned paper, inked and distressed along with the circular piece. The tickets were cut with two different types of dies and again inked with various colours of ink. I stamped one with a coordinating sentiment. The letters were die cut from brown card and stacked 3 high for some dimension. I stamped the happy birthday sentiment with brown ink onto cream card, inked and distressed and cut out with a sentiment strip. The hardest bit was figuring out placement on the card and I have to say it took me a good while of moving and changing my mind before I came to the final result. Most things were added with double sided tape except the car image, sentiment and circle embellishment which were added with foam tape and the DAD letters with liquid glue. For the inside I used the same newspaper patterned paper for my background, I stamped a postcard onto cream card and again inked and distressed it. I die cut a few more tickets and stamped my sentiment into the centre of a cream rectangle which was inked and distressed. Everything on the inside was adhered with double sided tape. I think it is the perfect card for an older gentleman and although I went a bit mad with the inking and distressing I think it turned out ok.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Alphabet challenge - C is for cars

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist happy birthday

Crafts Galore Encore challenge - ATG

Crafty Calendar challenge - ATG

Cut It Up challenge - add a sentiment

Daisy Chain challenge - boys/men

The Male Room challenge - trains, planes and automobiles

As I said I will be back with my second card on the 18th May. I hope you can play along with the challenge and I cannot wait to see all your vintage projects in the linky. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,