Monster Truck Loads

I had a monster card making session this week. On my 15 minute days (housework fifteen minutes, play for 15 minutes) I managed to get 12 monster truck cards made. I have so much trouble thinking up boy/ male cards, so I can’t claim that the original idea was mine. Some lovely person on Splitcoast Stampers posted one and I changed it up a bit and ran with the idea.

This one was the prototype, to see if it could be done. And even though it took a lot of patience and cutting, I just loved the way they turned out. Amazing what you can do with a stamp and a bit of inspiration.

Here’s how I did it

I stamped a whole lot of the loads of love truck and coloured and cut them out. I used my watercolour pencils, coloured them in then coloured over them with my blender pens to set the pencil. It makes the colours clearer and the image smoother too. Don’t you just love the flame. My daughter designed that for me. She is such a good drawer!!

Then comes the fiddly bits. I masked and stamped the top of the truck tray to make the bar at the back on to each truck. I then had to extend them to join to the truck with my black journaller. I masked and stamped the same section 10 times on a scrap of whisper white card and then drew on the flags. I also masked and stamped that section 20 more times to make the struts (I think that’s what you call the bits that hold up the wheels, I’m not mechanically minded ).

Close up of the truck

The wheels were circles drawn around a 10 cent piece and then I masked and stamped the hubs inside them and filled in the missing bits with my journaller. I even stuck in a bit off a plastic bag as a window. (just call me mad!!). The trucks were glued together and then stuck on the cards with dimensionals (boy did I use a lot of those).

Well I got sick of the flames and thought I’d try a different pattern. This one looks a bit like a taxi. Now that’s an idea……

Try one of these for yourself and let me know how you go by emailing me.

OR…..If you would like to order one or some of these cards just email me on stampinally@gamil.com. They cost $5AU each and I accept direct deposit. Inside simply has Happy Birthday!!

Happy Stamping!!

Time Well Spent

I have been playing with the new and exclusive Time Well Spent hostess stamp set and with Bold Brights, which is novel for me as I’m a bit of a Rich Regals and Soft Subtles fan.

The background is certainly celery and I’ve put a strip of confetti white across the bottom. The tulips were stamped in classic black ink and coloured in with pixie pink and brilliant blue pastels using a blender pen. A strip of certainly celery wide gros-grain ribbon was stuck across the bottom. The photos have been matted onto pixie pink and overlap each other. The butterflies were stamped onto white card and then coloured in pixie pink and brilliant blue. They were cut out and layered onto each other with the wings bent up to make them look like they were flying. Then wire was used to make antennae, curled and stuck on with glue dots. The toolkit pliers are just so handy for this.

Here is a close up of the butterfly

It was such fun to make and so bright and cheerful. The colours really picked out the colours from the top in the photos. I think that it was time well spent!