CDS Sneak Peek - Motorcycle Mania

This is my last post for today - I promise! lol I have been waiting to show you this set since I finished off this card! This is a set called Motorcycle Mania and it will be released on June 1 from Clear Dollar Stamps :)

For this card I decided to try something a little different. Last month you may remember me making this card with a photo of an old world map that I found on the internet. I decided to try something similar for this card with the difference of instead of using a digital photograph, I copied digital wall paper. All of the papers on this card have been printed from free digital wallpaper and screen saver sites from around the web. I specifically searched for grafitti type images, flames, and skulls because I wanted to have a "bad to the bone" feel for the card.




See the decorative leather strips in the picture above? I have to thank my hubby for those! I was just about finished up with the card when I asked him if he thought that something was missing...more specifically what I could add to it to make it seem more "biker-ish". It was 11 pm and he brilliantly thought of leather. Bingo! We have a winner - except where was I going to get my hands on some leather at 11 o'clock at night? Da, da, da, dah...Bill to the rescue!

Bill recently purchase some new leather steel toe boots for work and they came with a rather large decorative support strap that really didn't sit in the right place on his foot...so he decided to cut them off unbeknown to me! I was a little more than horrified when he pulled them out of a bag that was sitting next to his recliner and handed them to me and said "Here. Use these." (just a reminder, that they were cut of his BRAND SPANKIN' NEW boots - I'm still a little traumatized by this! lol)

For the greater sake of a beautiful card, I took the decorative leather boot straps and defiled them further by slicing off some 1/8" strips and threading through my card! After all, it was still a great idea! lol I also had some decorative chain hanging around my craft room too so that magically attached itself to the card with screw look-a-like brads :)



The motorcycle was watercoloured using my Tobow markers with an Aqua Painter. I coloured the chrome with a silver gel pen and then took a grey Tombow to add some shading. I then took my Aqua Painter to remove some if the thickness of the gel pen overlay and to blend it with my Tombow Marker highlights.

That's all from me until later tomorrow, but be sure to hop around and check out all of the sets that are being previewed right now :)

Laurie Wilson
Lori McCroskey
Linda Borneman
Nancy Grant
Katie Renz
Candy Fosta
Tori Wild
Angela Thomas
Cassie Trask
Stacy Morgan

*** Just a reminder that I have a little blog candy going on in this post if you want to check it out :)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Clear Dollar Stamps - Motorcycle Mania
Paper: Gina K, Printer Coverstock, Watercolour, Basic Black
Ink: Basic Black, Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Corner Rounder Punch, Brads, Decorative Chain, Leather Strips, Dimensionals, Sponges, Silver Gel Pen, 1/16" Circle Punch, Distressing Tool, Tombow Markers, Aqua Painter