Monday, June 14, 2010

Gallery Idol Top 15

Hey everybody! Well today I have my card for the next round of Gallery Idol. I woke up Friday morning to find that I had moved on in the competition and we had to make a masculine card with a garage element. I had an idea quickly after that and I started making it. I had it finished by Friday night and took pictures of it Saturday and edited all my pics. Well I knew that I needed to make a collage because the card was interactive. Let me just say... that I tried EVERY program on my computer! We were required to make it a certain size, so my programs weren't cooperating! All of them were to small! The one on the gallery is still smaller than I would like, but I had to stay in the right dimensions. I even tried to download a free trial PhotoShop Elements to make a different collage, (it took over two hours to download) and it still wouldn't work! So after Chace's baseball end of the season party Sunday afternoon, I came home and figured it out and got it posted! So I thought it was going to be an easy process... and I was TOTALLY wrong! :( I seriously need to learn more about photo editing! So anyway...enough of my whining! Here is my card.

I got the inspiration from Chance's truck! He sure loves that truck, so I thought I would make him a "mini" truck for Father's Day! :)
I didn't want to make a regular folding card, so I hide the rest of the sentiment behind the tail gate.
I used my Practicing Creativity stamp set You're the Man, for my tread on my tires and for my license plate and replaced the screws with real ones. I used a transparency sheet for the back glass and for the tail lights. And I just had to make a tree air freshener! ;)
Here are some close-ups. You can see the tire tread good in this one!

Supplies: Cardstock- (PTI) pure poppy, white, true black , (SU!) red & orange, (ColorBox) green , (DCWV) silver ; Stamps- (Practicing Creativity) You're the Man , (Studio G) Father's Day ; Ink- (SU!) basic black, (Versamark) watermark ; Other- Transparency sheet, (American Crafts) clear embossing powder, black marker, screws

Don't forget to stop by the Gallery to vote for your favorite card!

And tomorrow is a new EBTKS sketch challenge!


Have a Blessed day!

8 comments:

Kryssi said...

don't worry, winter! the card is still fabulous, it's not hard to tell creativity!

Karen B. said...

So very cute, and I love the interactive nature of it. And awesome use of Courtney's stamps! I have ALL sorts of photo editing software so next time, you can contact me and I would be so very willing to help you out!

Brandi said...

Winter this is so cute and very creative!

Helen F. said...

Winter, this is the cutest evahhh! congrats on your published cards~I'm seeing your name pop up everywhere! YAY!!

~amy~ said...

okay, now aren't you just too clever!!!!! Right down to the air freshener...toooo fun Winter!

Regina Mangum said...

Winter, your card is so cute! I love all your little details. Best of luck!

Vera Yates (Ling) said...

Winter, that's so clever! I love it! Any plan on coming to Houston? They have CKC here in July. Maybe we can get together!!

Hollie Shepard said...

You card is amazing! The tires are awesome!