Enjoy The Journey Card

I made this card because I am really lacking in the area of masculine cards; I don’t have any extras made, I'm not that confident at making them and you know practice makes perfect (at this rate I should be up to speed in, let’s say, 500 more years <grin>).  I wanted a card that could be used for any occasion and I chose Tim Holtz Stampers’ Anonymous Playful Journey & The Journey stamp sets.  I love the backwards “e” in the Enjoy the Journey sentiment (Playful Journey set) and that really was the main reason I had bought the set – I completely forgot I had The Journey set and noticed that a few of the images appeared to be the same but I discovered while making this project that while the images may be the same design they are different sizes (yippee!), I am already thinking about how I can use the 2 car images together; maybe a shadow?  OK, anyway. . . This is what I used to make my “Journey Card”:

• Tim Holtz Stampers’ Anonymous Playful Journey (enjoy the journey sentiment)
• Tim Holtz Stampers’ Anonymous The Journey (I used both of the cars)
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft Glassine Paper, 1 piece
• Matte white card stock cut to card size
• Darice Gears Embossing Folder
• My Minds Eye Celebration Tracker Paper Stack (cut out Trip Information – of course you can always stamp it)
• Black circle scrap (from a MME punch out alphabet – told you I save everything!)
• Kraft Card Stock (any shade will do)
• Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black
• Distress Ink in Brushed Corduroy
• Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap
• Sharpie Black Marker
• Scrap piece of text book paper (I saved this from my Altered “Shell Book” Niche project & gessoed a bunch of the pages that I cut out)
• Dimensional Adhesive, 2 "dots"
• Stipple Brush

I started out with running the Kraft Glassine paper through my Big Shot using the gears embossing folder then I trimmed it up a bit – it still looked kind of distressed on the edges and maybe not quite even but it worked for me.

After deciding where I wanted to soften the white of the card stock so I stippled Frayed Burlap along the edges of the card & then edged the card with Brushed Corduroy.  I also edged the Trip Information paper and crumpled it up to add some texture.

I love stipple brushes - I have had my brushes for over 10 years!

I stamped the 2 cars in the jet black ink on Kraft card stock and then sort of fussy cut them out – I purposely left a little border around the cars.

I took my black circle scrap, cut the piece I needed and edged the whole thing, including inside the circles with my black Sharpie.  This also helped to get rid of the little bitty “tabs” that sometimes stay on a punch out – you know those annoying little bumps of paper where the punch out was held in place.

I then stamped the sentiment “Enjoy the Journey” onto the piece of scrap book text that had already been gessoed.  I crumpled that up as well and used a pair of decorative scissors in deckle to cut around the square.  I edged that with Brushed Corduroy but not precisely – just a little bit here and there.

 I adhered the black circle scrap, the Trip Information scrap, the vintage truck and the sentiment with my Crafters’ Pick glue.  I got out 2 dimensional adhesive dots and edged those with the black Sharpie (that was REALLY messy – It didn’t even dawn on me that the dimensional dots were made of this spongy material and the marker ink just kind of sat on the edge.  I let them dry while I went and scrubbed my hands to try to get the Sharpie off) because I really didn’t want any white to show and I wasn’t positive where I was going to position that last car.  Once the edging on the dimensional adhesive was dry, I popped them on the back of the car and then adhered the car to the card.  Done! 

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and I’d LOVE to hear your thoughts on this card and all of my posted projects – I am going through a dry spell with comments so please leave me some love, tips, suggestions, money, whatever – I’m not that picky <grin>.

I really like this card; it was fun and easy to make.  I also like to make projects that allow substitutions or omissions and they will still look good & I think this card allows that.  Remember, save everything, use everything & substitute with what you have on hand (especially if you are like me and find that the creative juices really get flowing after all the stores are closed & you really should be in bed).

I am entering this project in the Simon Says Stamp &Show Kraft Challenge.

I tried to show some of the texture & dimension of the card - you can see a little bit in this picture

My wonderful assistant, Monster, showing off one of her many talents

 

 

Finally the finished card