SY's Studio: Jeepers It's the Old Jalopy!

Good Evening,

hope you are having a great weekend! I'm getting some crafty time in tonight so I'm a happy girl.

This project, a card, has a little background story so bear with me. Last week my husband helped our niece pick out and purchase her first car. He found a wonderful car dealer about an hour an a half away but as it turned out the drive was worth it. She was able to get a used, one owner car in great shape within her budget. When my husband had initially called this dealer he had a good feeling about him and his instinct was right. Ok, I'm getting close to the crafty part here.

My husband asked if I could make a thank you card for this dealer. Oh sure I said. Hmmmm, I don't really have any car stamps or dies so wonder what I could use. Well, then my husband said these magic words: do they make a die that is a car? Really? Yes, of course, there is this cool Tim Holtz Sizzix die. More magic words: is it something you can get locally? Really? This is my husband asking me to go buy craft supplies! Well, I wasn't about to say no and pass up this opportunity so off to J's I went. Lo and behold there was an Old Jalopy die, and it was . . . old sale! Score!

I brought this baby home and just starting playing. The Old Jalopy die is a blast. So many possibilities.

After a few trial cuts I got the hang of it and I pulled out the paper, foil sheets, embossing folders, inks, and embossing powder. I'm happy with how my first car card turned out.

I adhered some scrap pieces of foil tape to some cardstock ran it through my Big Shot with an embossing folder and then die cut the bumpers. Those got colored with some alcohol ink.

I used a piece of plastic packaging for the windows and you can see if you look real close that there is some "dirt" on the windows I made with alcohol ink. The dirt road is Distress embossing power.