Hit the road with pastels and blender pen

I'm in the "H" section of my stamp sets now. This stamp is called "Hit the Road" it's currently on the dormant list but remains one of my son's favorite stamps. I used Stampin' UP! Pastels and a blender pen to color the jeep in. The pastels are a great way to have all 48 colors (plus 3 neutrals). I made an attempt at a video tutorial on how to use the pastels. Click the picture below to get to youtube and see the video. I'm still learning how to do this video stuff so bear with me :)

Hit the road with the bike

This card uses the Hit the Road set also but it features the bicycle. One of the great things about the 4 x 4 card is that you are able to create a focal point with a smaller image.

To add a bit of texture the creamy carmel square has been distressed on the edges and the pacific point cardstock was embossed using the Big Shot Texturz plates. These are really easy to use and make a huge difference. If you click on the picture it will enlarge and you'll be able to see the texture a bit better.

Here's another card using the bicycle and the texturz plates.

Are you tired of "Hit the Road" yet?

I hope not because I still have a couple more cards to share!

This one uses the In colors, pacific point and tangerine tango (perfect combo for a male card). The main image is stamped in pacific point and colored with markers.

I really wanted to create another color layer around the sentiment but when I put the old olive circle under the tangerine circle it covered too much of the jeep image. So the old olive circle is under need the jeep image and the tangerine image is popped up on dimensionals. I really like how it turned out.

HI was created using the Bill Board alphabet die and the big shot. I love that I can spell anything.

Another "Hit the Road"

But this one doesn't have anything to do with roads. I love this canoe, when I saw the stamp set that was the first image I noticed. A few years ago Steve got a canoe for Christmas and each summer we try to go canoeing as much as possible. We all have a great time! I can't wait to use this stamp on a scrapbook page!

I thought that the journey definition from Define your life was a perfect sentiment to go along with this image.

My version of Hit the Road

I've been needing to make some swaps using a new stamp set in the catalog, or a Sale-a-bration set. I decide to use Hit the Road. Of course I had to use my new favorite toy, my Big Shot. The top note die makes such a nice easy focal point! I colored the jeep using markers. The sentiment is from the sock monkey stamp set. I realized in making these swaps that I didn't have a lot of simple, fun sentiments. I don't have many sentiment sets at all, so that will have to be on my next order. I punched the sentiment out with the small oval, and used the the large oval to create a border for it. I decided it need to pop a little so I adhered it with dimensionals.

Caleb's School Valentine

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a few days, I just hadn't made anything to show you. Thankfully Caleb made something that we can share. He used the new "Hit the Road" stamp set. ( I hadn't even used it yet) He paired it with the hearts and sentiment from Loads of Love. We used the crop-a-dile to punch holes in the side of the cardstock to attach the suckers. The great thing about the crop-a-dile is that we were able to punch all 22 of his valentines at one time!!