A Vintage Vacation

 Hello friends, I am back today with a card (yes, a card :) that I made for yesterday's kickoff of a new challenge over at Frilly and Funkie.  (I decided to wait to post it a day late because I had a blog hop going on yesterday for Artistic Outpost.)  This new challenge is being hosted by Nancy Dynes and she wants us to make a project with a vintage travel theme.  I, like most of my DT sisters, envisioned a vintage vacation to Paris for my make.  I started with an A2 size of white card stock and ran it through the Air Mail Texture Fade, then sponged it with Faded Jeans.  I wanted my vintage Paris piece to be girlie and I found the lovely vintage rose card on the Lilac and Lavender blog.  If you haven't visited Megan Berry before, you should.  She does absolutely amazing digital work with old vintage images.  And get gives it away free on her blog!

I let the rose image set the tone for the piece and in keeping with the girlie feel, I cut a really pretty lacy white doily with a Prima die (so sorry that they are out of stock in the store this week, but they are on order and should be back in stock soon).   I added a flower to the doily, made by die cutting white CS with the Tattered Flowers decorative strip die and colored with spun sugar and diluted Victorian Velvet.  And an ivy cut with the Spring Greenery die sets the flower off beautifully (I am SO addicted to that greenery die!).  I grabbed Tim Holtz's Ephemera packs - I have both the Thrift Shop and the Expedition packs and I'm afraid they have gotten combined so I don't know where these images came from but I suspect they were from the Expedition pack.

The ticket was cut with the Ticket decoratve strip die and stamped with one of the ticket stamps from Odds and Ends.  I stamped the sentiment #memories with the #hashtags set and added the "travel" rub-on.  A pretty rose dome cabochon and a lovely little filigree key with a tiny scrap of Faded Jeans dyed seam binding from the shop finished off the panel very nicely.

Next I needed to figure out how to mat it.  I looked through my patterned paper stash but did't find anything suitable so I decided to go with stripes  I used Wendy Vecchi's Yipes Stripes stencil and sponged it with Faded Jeans.  I love the way it looks as a backing for my panel.

That's it for now.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed my vintage travel card!

These products were used to make the above card and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique, where Ti Holtz, Wendy Vecchi and most other name brand products are always 20% under MSRP.                                    

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Faded Jeans	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Prima Delightfully Thin Doily Die	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die
Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Spring Greenery	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spun Sugar	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ephemera Pack - Expedition	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ephemera Pack - Thrift Shop	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Ticket Die
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Odds & Ends	$23.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Hashtags	Rose Glass Dome Cabochons - Set of 5	8 Piece Small Metal Keys for Scrapbooking and Mixed Media	Rayon Seam Binding
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Yipes Stripes	Tim Holtz Sixxiz Texture Fades - Compass & Airmail Set