RRCB207 Road Trip

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I had a stamp camp recently where we made men's cards, and the Retro Rubber Challenge this week of Anything Goes fit in perfectly with one of my cards:

 

This motorcycle and all the accompanying images are from Artistic Outpost's Route 66, which is from 2012!  I stamped the cycle in Merry Merlot ink on Crumb Cake cardstock, and then stamped the other images on the Merry Merlot card.  After I diecut the motorcycle panel, I stamped the map image directly on top of the motorcycle in Crumb Cake ink. I added a couple of metallic adhesive dots for a masculine look:

  

Since we were making the cards generic in occasion, we stamped a badge from Badges & Banners on the inside:

I am so sorry that SU retired Merry Merlot; it's such a great color!  

Cassidy was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society yesterday.  She's looking forward to helping plan some service projects as well as a school dance!  The dance is a fundraiser so it's not just for fun!  So proud of her!  On an interesting note, two other sets of parents of inductees grew up with Dana and were all in church and youth group together.  It was fun to reminisce with their parents, which are in my generation, and we all look forward to seeing how our grandchildren will grow to impact their futures!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Route 66 (Artistic Outpost, 2012), Badges & Banners (2016)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Merry Merlot (ret)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Merry Merlot (ret)
Accessories	Metallic Adhesive Brads (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Countryside Corners Dies, Sponge Daubers

IB135 Lemony Best Friend

Happy Thursday, peeps!  We have a fresh, fun challenge for you today at Inspired By!  Check this out:

I am embarrassed to admit that I have NO citrusy stamps in my plethora of sets!  There is a really cute set in the current catalog, and I may have to break down and order it next month!  So I had to do some creative thinking to come up with my "lemon"....here we go:

The last time I had a fruity dilemma, I went to the retired Country Road set where there is a wagon wheel that, with a little imagination and some embossing and coloring, can look amazingly like a slice of lemon!  I had a wee bit of Pineapple Punch cardstock left, so I embossed my image in white and added a little shading toward the center with some So Saffron ink, and I think it looks pretty close:

I added some crimped Granny Apple Green leaves, a sentiment from Badges and Banners, and mounted it on a pretty piece of floral DSP from Honey Bee:

The black plaid background is actually washi tape, given to me for my birthday by my friend Martha!  I also added some ribbon and sequins to amp up the citrus colors.  I used another piece of Pineapple Punch as a mat.  I didn't use the optional sketch this week, instead, my sketch comes from Sunday Stamps:

And just to give you a wee bit of a chuckle, here is my card again; I took this picture while it was still on my stamp desk:

BECAUSE THIS IS HOW I ASSEMBLED IT THE FIRST TIME:

Yep!  Upside down!  A whack with the cutter, another card base and it was good to go....a bit top-heavy, but at least it was salvageable!  Thanks for popping in today!  I hope this fresh inspiration photo gives you some incentive to make a card to share with us at Inspired By this week! Can't wait to see it!

Here are a few cards that I received for my birthday!

From Joan:

From Doris:

From Sally:

From Linda:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Badges and Banners, Country Road (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Granny Apple Green, Pineapple Punch (ret), Brights DSP, The Bee's Knees DSP (Honey Bee)
Ink	Memento Black, White Craft, So Saffron
Accessories	Sequins (Sylvia's Etsy Shop), Tuxedo Washi Tape (Altenew), Grosgrain Ribbon (ret), White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Heat Tool, Crimper (ret)