Vintage Motor

Good morning folks.
Hope you all had a fab BH weekend.
The weather wasn't particularly BH friendly so I spent some time in the craftroom creating before trying to spot our Son whilst watching the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race. The race was due to pass by the village where we used to live and our son still does, so it was fun to try and spot the landmarks as the peloton whizzed by. Although he told us where he was standing we couldn't spot him, even on playback! The scenery was fab though and so were the crowds, fabulous to see the tour being so well supported. Shame the commentators hadn't been given the correct pronunciation of some of the place names, Holmfirth has a silent 'L'. It does sound funny when they give the climbs the prefix Cote de ... as well.

Anyway I managed to cobble together a card between ad breaks for this week's challenge at Cardz4Guyz.

INSPIRED BY A FILM, BOOK or PIECE of MUSIC

However you must say how you are inspired in your post.

I had a look through my stash of stamps to see what came to mind first settling on this

 NEBUS stamp set from LOTV. I think I bought it from Port Sunlight this time last year and this is it's first inking! I don't think they're are there this year though, they seem to be cutting back on shows and going digital, less stress I would think. It reminded me of the film 'Genevieve' about the vintage London to Brighton car rally. Genevieve being the name of the car!

I used a Sketch Saturday layout that I've used before and some map paper from an old road atlas. SATNAVs may be popular but I love an old fashioned map to look at, always have, in fact a friend used to call me JulieNAV when we went out in her car!

I started by cutting out the circles with a variety of dies for my top panel and then stamped the images with black Memento and embossing with clear EP. As I had used EP I decided to use my Zig Markers to colour the images for a change, adding a few white hi lights with a gel pen. After fussy cutting the images I glued the map paper onto my base card and popped my top panel up on pads. The images were then glued flat on the map paper. I also added some doodled borders to frame the apertures and added a sentiment from the same set.

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Embossing (used clear EP over black outline stamping)


Embossing wet or dry (I used clear EP over black outline stamping)