I was determined to prove to myself that the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks set is more than the sunflowers, and I knew just how I wanted to use the houndstooth mask. In fact, I had several other elements I wanted to use on one of the October stamp camp cards: the gingham ribbon that has been with us for a while, a tag (more on that below), and Trucking Along. Knowing I was going with a Christmas card, I wanted that houndstooth to be tone-on-tone. How difficult could that be? Surprisingly, it took Cherry Cobbler ink (and a lot of it!) on Poppy Parade cardstock to get the effect I wanted. I hope you can see it here!
The Trucking Along stamp set and coordinating punch are available through the Online Exclusives page (i.e., not in any catalog). You’ll want to look at the stamp set really, really closely to see just how much is included — there is lots of potential here!
We did two-step stamping for the truck (the highlighting is already there!), but you could certainly color the outline image. I colored the hub cap and wheels with Stampin’ Blends markers; stamping those would be just too fussy. Many of the stamps are two-step, outline/filler images, as you can see above. We used only the “filler” stamp of the Christmas tree, which seemed enough. That was fussy cut.
Two of my October camp cards featured tags. On both this Christmas card and this one, the tag is from the Merriest Trees set of dies. You’d be forgiven if you said you didn’t realize there was a tag in that set — it’s easy to overlook. Oh, and an adorable hole reinforcement die that folds over the tag, but not on this card.
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