Africa Themed Cards

Travel Montage - Triple Stamping Technique

I saw a card using this technique a few weeks ago, but didn't really think much about it. A few weeks later I was at a stamping convention and saw this travel montage stamp. I wanted it, but couldn't think of what I could use it for. Then I remembered this technique and thought it would be perfect! So here are the two cards I made, one in yellow and one in green.

Paper: Summer Sun, Glorious Green, Neenah
Ink: Memento Tuxedo
Stamp: Rubbernecker's European Travel
Accessories:  Ribbon from my stash

Card Candy - Travel

I've joined a swap on Splitcoaststampers forSpring and Summer Card Candy. This batch is for the travel category.

Card Candy is a piece you could put straight on a card/scrapbook page without having to do anything to it. An image, a saying, etc. and usually consists of a minimum of 2 layers and possibly an embellishment. There are usually 4/5 pieces of candy in a package.

The first piece is an interstate sign. The die is from ProvoCraft and was cut out of white, blue and red paper and put together. The "66" is cut from white paper using Sizzix's Playground sizzlets.

The next piece uses white and navy paper and the ink is Adirondack Denim. The base layer has little passport stamps - the stamp is an ATC stamp from either Lost Coast Designs or Stamp Camp. I don't recall which - they are generally together at the conventions I go to - and I can't find it on either web page and punched with SU's small oval, large oval and scalloped oval.

The Traveler stamp is from a set of travel words from Impression Obsession.

The round piece is a stamp from Inkadinkado, stamped with Adirondak Cabin Fever on ivory paper from Office ??? and matted on DCWV paper.

The elephant stamp is from SU's Balmy Breezes and stamped with Color Box Antique Pewter on grey paper, cut with Fisker's stamp scissors, matted on white and matted again on the grey, once again cut with the stamp scissors.

The tag is SU's Hiways and Byways background stamp, colored with copics and matted with red paper and punched with SU's tag punches. I left the interstate sign blank so the user can add their favorite highway number.

Travel Inspired Cards, Take 2

Here are a couple more travel inspired cards I created last week. They both use pictures from the Fodor's Page-a-day calendar I have.

This one is of London at night, with Big Ben, Parliament and the Millennium Bridge. I used a variety of postmark stamps; one from Stampabilities, Seaside Stampin Ink, Inkadinkado, SU's World Traveler and Office Ephemera and the London Cube from Judikins. The paper is from Big Lots, I used my Deckle nesties and Adirondack "Denium" ink.

This one features a picture of Ponte Vecchio over the Arno river in Florence, Italy. I used paper from DCWV and my deckle nesties. The stamps I used are from Seaside Stampin Ink, Inkadinkado, SU's World Traveler and Office Ephemera and a little (ATC sized) background stamp from either Lost Coast Designs or Stamp Camp. The "Journey of the Heart" stamp is from a PSX Pixie set.

Travel Inspired Card

I love to travel and when I found a Fodor's Page A Day calendar with pictures from around the world, I thought that some of the pictures would be great for cards. Here's my first one. The map stamp is from Rubber Cottage, the post mark is from SU's "World Traveler" and I'm not sure where the other three stamps are from.. I then used SU's "Bitty Backgrounds" to fill in the empty space. The ink is SU's Basic Brown and it is matted on a dark maroon paper.