Tuesday 12 June 2012

Heard it on the Grape Vine...

Number 3 in the countdown of top 10 Classic Rock-inspired cards... Don't think I'll actually get to TEN but I've been having fun!  You can see card #1 HERE and card #2 HERE.

I was inspired this week by the challenges at:


I made two versions of this card: on both, the grape vine leaves were cut from CTMH "Dotty for You" polka-dot paper, with a leaf die from Sizzix.  The grape vine itself is made with "honeydew" twine from The Twinery.  I used circles punched from textured cardstock arranged in a cluster of "grapes," but wasn't too happy with them--they looked a little flat.


So I made a second attempt using a Paper Smooches free digi-stamp ("I love you BERRY much"), which I printed out and coloured with markers. Better.

The head-phones for the groovin' grape were made using a shape punched from silver metallic paper and a length of black "Memory Thread."  The face was created with one of the stamps from There She Goes Clear Stamps' "Perk Up" set .

The sentiment was stamped in Garden Green and Smokey Plum inks (pretty fruity!) from CTMH, using a discontinued font called "Doodle Alphabet." I've been paring the edges off my polymer alphabet stamps (what? cut your stamps?--thanks to Emily Leiphart for that great idea) to allow closer spacing on the block.

Off to listen to XM Radio's classic rock station, for more inspiration...


4 comments:

  1. OMG love love love these super creative cards - great play on words - just fab !
    ((hugs)) Suzie xoxo

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  2. How clever is this??!!! Love it! Great outside of the box using grapes as dots and that groovin' grape is adorable! Thanks for playing this week at CAS-ual Friday!

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  3. I just love the smily face on the grape!!! Such a super fun card and brilliant punny sentiment too :0)
    So glad you shared your creativity with us this week at CASual Fridays :0)
    Jenny x

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  4. Great job love both of them.

    xox, Muggie

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