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Cards and other handicrafts made by Jean Straw

Tuesday 23 August 2011

On The Move

      It is a Theme Challenge for week 29 at Less Is More, and the theme is Something That Moves. This can be interpreted as a moving component on the card or an image of something capable of movement. As you will see I have used both in my card, by stamping the image of a vintage car, and adding a Tim Holtz muse token swinging from a trinket pin.
      I stamped the image onto very smooth ivory card and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I coloured the background with cut and dry foam and several shades of distress ink, Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Aged Mahogany and Walnut Stain. I then cut it out and mounted it onto black card leaving a very small edge.Next I cut a slightly larger piece of mahogany red card and fixed it towards the top of the base card, which was made by folding some lightly mottled cream card, to make a basic A6 card.
I couldn't find a matching coloured muse token and trinket pin, so I used Terra Cotta and Expresso alcohol inks with a touch of Copper mixative to colour the token, and found it made quite a good match.I fixed it to the trinket pin with a jump ring and attached it to the bottom right hand corner of the stamped image and then fixed the whole lot to the red panel on the card.
       Thank you to everyone who left kind and useful comments here last week, I really appreciate it, and also to those who have recently joined  my little group of followers.
       I am also entering this for, Cards for Men;  Anything Goes.                                                                                        

12 comments:

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  2. Super image, looks great mounted with the pin. x

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  3. Jean this is terrific, you have matched the colours of your embellishments perfectly... a very clever thought and a super card!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  4. Super card Jean, love that image and the embellishment enchances the design perfectly!

    I have deleted my earlier comment Jean, sorry had lots of probelms with the scomments freezing and kept losing my typing so resorted to sopy and pasting. Apologies I messed up yours!

    Thanks so much
    Mandi
    Diva LIM
    "Less is More"

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  5. This is great Jean. I love the images and the colour. Dianne

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  6. Fab card, such a wonderful vintage image, love the little charm too.

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  7. Such a great guy card! Fab image and I love your token!

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  8. I love this - perfect colours, composition and image. A great design all round!

    Thanks for sharing! Sarah at 192

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  9. A fabulous card, love the images.
    xxx Hazel.

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  10. This is such a gorgeous card. I love the design and the image also. Thanks for joining us at Cards for Men. Mandy x

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  11. Thanks for joining us at Card for Men. I love seeing your creations. Good luck on the challenge.
    Hugz, Patricia

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