Addicted to Stamps and More! ~ Challenge #488

Time for our next challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More! For the next two weeks, our challenge is

Here's my card

This was a personalized birthday card. My friend and I are going to be travelling to Europe. I've hinted about a trip but this officially announced the trip. The cute suitcase was from Spellbinders Advent Calendar 2024, day 24. I took some brown packing paper and scrunched it up. I smoothed it out by hand and added some brushed corduroy and rusty hinge distress ink, applied with oval ink blending brushes to it. I was trying for a leather-look. I die cut the pieces of the suitcase from scraps of cardstock, including gold cardstock for the handle and buckles. I glued the pieces of the suitcase together. For the background, I started with an A2 piece of kraft cardstock and lightly stamped some images from Stampers Anonymous Euro Elements (Tim Holtz collection) with Concord & 9's pebble ink. For the sentiment, I stamped using Paper Smooches' Sentiment Sampler on a scrap of kraft cardstock with Concord & 9's cobblestone ink. I ink blended the sentiment strip with brushed corduroy ink to give a weathered look. I glued the sentiment strip in place and adhered the panel to a white A2 card base to complete my card. 

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Thanks for stopping by

sue

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