The challenge at the Hero Arts Blog this week is to make a masculine card. I combined that challenge with Kazan's Sketch #27 at 2 Sketches 4 You and Sharon's Stamp Simply Challenge #88 to use red, white & blue.
I stamped the Hero Arts Collage Thank You and Gratitude in Blue Iris Chalk ink and clear embossed the images on a want ad page from the August 1950 issue of Popular Science Magazine. I love the natural aging of the paper. Another page from the magazine is used for the background. I sponged some brown ink around the red card base.
The key is painted with Royal Red Shimmerz glitter paint. I finished with a scrap of leather-like textured paper and some bailing twine that I stole from my husband's work bench in the garage.
Love the newspaper Stef and your stamping.
Thanks for playing
Hugs
Kazan
Posted by: kazan clark | May 25, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Beautiful card!!!
Posted by: **nancy** | May 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
This is super! Love how you combined the masculine theme with the sketch and I am so in love with that newspaper print paper.
Thanks for playing along with us this week
Posted by: Kim Sonksen | May 26, 2009 at 02:31 PM
oh so cool! I like the newspaper with the the added texture as a background! I likey!
Clouds :D
Posted by: Clouds | May 26, 2009 at 02:34 PM
Great idea for the text background!
Posted by: Diana Foster | May 26, 2009 at 09:31 PM
Soooooooo kewl! LOVE it ... and that 59 year old paper looks fantastic!!
Posted by: Deb Neerman | May 26, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Wonderful card, great take on the sketch!
hugs Dora
Posted by: dora | May 30, 2009 at 01:33 AM