Vroom!!

Hello!  I was looking through some of my stamps by Gerda Steiner Designs recently and came across this guy living his best life and thought that it had been a little bit since he came out to play.   This stamp set is called Vrooming By!

To make the main focus of the card look like a stamp, I used the Pink Fresh Nested Rectangles Postage Edge Dies to cut it from Hammermill Cardstock, Premium Color Copy, 100lb paper.  I always use this paper for ink blending.  I will use it for Copic coloring occasionally when I need a larger surface.  I prefer to use X-Press It Blending Card but it is pretty expensive, so I use it mostly to stamp smaller images and cut them out with dies or my scan and cut.  

I stamped and my little guy and then stamped and cut a mask for him.  Once he was covered, I inked the ground with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide.  I then inked in the sky with Tumbled Glass.

I colored my little friend in with Copic Markers in the following colors:

• R05, R17, R27 - Red
• W0, W1, W5, W7, W9 - Gray
• YG23, YG07, YG09 - Green
• YR21, YR23, YR24, YR27 - Dog

Once that was colored, I used the Postage Die to cut it out and then layered it on red cardstock to highlight the postage cut edge.  

The palm print behind the stamp was inked on white cardstock.  I lightly inked the cardstock with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide Ink.  I used the Lawn Fawn Tropical Leaves Stencil with Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide.  I cut this piece to 5.35" x 4.0".

I glued the "postage stamp" and stenciled cardstock on a piece of yellow cardstock cut to 5.5" x 4.25". Once that was assembled, I glued it to a card base.  

I used the sentiments from the stamp set for the outside and inside of the card.  

To add to the postage theme of the card, I used the Year Round Postmarks from Sweet November Stamps. 

I think this is just a really fun card that would be used for a lot of different occasions.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day also.

Sandy