Journey

Today is another day in the Stampendous Hop showcasing the new stamps in the October Release.

I was inspired by the Vintage Car and decided to create a travel tag:

The background is a piece of map that I had laying around. I cut the map to fit on my tag and tore a section out in the middle.  I added some really cool Aged Teal Embossing Enamel with a touch of Aged Gold Embossing Enamel around the edges.

I stamped the Vintage Car using versamark on a piece of the map and heat embossed using black embossing powder.  I stamped again on tan cardstock using brown ink.  I cut them both out and slightly overlapped them to give a cool effect.

I embossed an old key added an Idea-ology link and added it to the tag.  I stamped the Time Flies clock twice once I embossed in Aged Gold Embossing Enamel and the other in black ink.  I added a hint of teal blue to the clock face. I punched the clock face out in the embossed version and layered them together.

Just for fun I decided to try to coordinate my seam binding by embossing it with the Aged teal embossing enamel.  I sponged the surface of the ribbon using versamark and sprinkled the embossing enamel over the surface and shook off the excess.  I heated it up with the heat gun. You need to be careful and hold the heat gun further away so as to not start the ribbon on fire. :)  

For more wonderful inspiration:

Asia King
Janelle Stollfus
Jennifer Dove
Kristine Reynolds
Melinda Gleissner
Suzanne Czosek
Tenia Nelson
Wendy Price

And of course, you can browse the catalog below by clicking on the cover (all of the Stampendous catalogs as cool flippy books are on the Stampendous website at the bottom of the home page, too)