Geared Up Garage Celebrations

Hello and welcome to my blog today. I recently participated in a team swap and this was the card I made.  The idea is to make a number of identical cards which are then swapped with other contributors and then a new selection of cards are returned.  This is a brilliant way to get new ideas for sets that you already own and act as a temptation for sets that you want to put on your wish list. I'm delighted with the samples I received and they have given me lots of inspiration for future projects.

 

My eldest children are twins and they have both recently passed their driving test, so it seemed apt to share this card. I combined the Geared Up Garage bundle, the Stitched Rectangle dies and the embossing mats to create my card. The car image is stamped randomly over the Basic Grey card using matching ink to make the background. Then I cut layers from Crushed Curry and Tranquil Tide card using the stitched rectangle dies.  Ooh I love these - have I mentioned that before?!

 

My favourite part of this card is the variety of textures.  There's the stamping on the background, the stitching around the rectangles the two different types of embossing; on the gears and the words. The (well kept) secret weapon are the Big Shot Embossing Mats which were used to emboss the gears.  I haven't used these very much before, which is a shame because they are fantastic. When paired with the mats Framelits, Thinlets and Edgelit dies do more than just cutting - they emboss too. How useful is that?

There are two possibilities with the blue and grey embossing mats: cutting and embossing (Basic Grey and foil gear shapes) and just embossing (Tranquil Tide layer). Full instructions (with pictures) come along with the mats. I'm definitely going to use these more! Before I started the assembly process for my batch of cards, the pile of ingredients looked like this. The texture on the Tranquil Tide layer can be seen quite clearly!

The sentiment is heat embossed using black embossing powder to compiment the colour scheme. I originally intended that the cards would be used to celebrate a birthday, but I think that Driving Test success is a reason to celebrate too.

Thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope that you like my Geared Up Garage celebration. During Sale-A-Bration you earn free products when you make a qualifying purchase.  If you purchase the Geared Up Garage Bundle you qualify for a FREE item from the Sale-A-Bration brochure.
If you want to purchase the items used for this card, or any other supplies, please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop.  You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.

As always, happy crafting,

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