Final card for Artistic Outpost Cracker Jack Release

Here is my final card for the Cracker Jack Release for Artistic Outpost for whom I am so proud to be a Guest Designer. I have gotten to showcase some awesome sets since December
When I think of Baseball, I think of apple pie, and America as well so I always think of the colors of Red, White, and Blue. I used the baseball stamp to create the dp for the card base. I just randomly stamped the baseballs to cover the white cs and then overstamped Take Me Out To The Ballgame in Red ink.

I colored the umpire (today he is an umpire) with a blue hat and white shirt and sponged the outside border with cranberry red. I created the sentiment tag by cutting a piee of white and a piece of black and punched the end with my tag punch. I am all about using what I have in a way so that it looks like I used another product. The tip to use the tag punch to create the tag end came from my friend Theresa.

Thanks for stopping by every night to view my release projects for this totally awesome set. This set can be used for masculine greeting cards, for kids baseball scrapbook pages, Birthday invitations, Gift cards, coasters, the list goes on. I will definitely be showing more of this set in the next few months so keep checking back.

Now I just need to get the Hero's bundle :)

See you later, Have a great week-end.

Cathy

Out of the Office for a Meeting?

This gentleman, from Cracker Jack just released at Artistic Outpost, looks very serious about his favorite sport and business. I am sure that many of his afternoon meetings during baseball season were in the ball park. The ribbon says it all, "Take me out to the Ball Game!" It looks like it was casual Friday at work that day :)

I colored the gentleman with copic markers and sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Brushed Corduroy. I stamped the word Baseball in cranberry red Adirondak ink to match the stamped ribbon, which was a great find at Hobby Lobby on sale.

I was looking for something to mount my baseball on and saw this red bottle cap. I have seen my friend Lynn Stevens use bottle caps but had never found any to use myself. I took mine outside and used a hammer to flatten it out. Not as pretty as Lynn's but it works for what I wanted, her's has nicely rounded edges and mine was just beat into submission!

Mounted my image on brown cardstock and then I off set two panels, one with the baseball word collage which is very cool stamped in brown and one sponged brown. I distressed all the edges a little to age it a bit.

I mounted everything on one of my favorite masculine dp's the brown with green dots.


As we celebrate both our new summer releases as well as our new website, we're offering 20% off both the unmounted and mounted versions of Cracker Jack and She-roes. Please enter the following coupon code at check-out: cj-sr-20off We are also offering 20% the purchase of both She-roes and Hero unmounted sets. This is a special item in our store located here. (Please note you can not combine the coupon code with this set. However, you can purchase this bundle at 20% off and use the coupon code to purchase Cracker Jack. Coupon offer ends May 31, 2009.)Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the other Design Team and Guest Design eam members blogs for more samples using the two new sets. I personally have one more sample after today so be sure to stop back.

Thanks for stopping by. TGIF!!!

Cathy

Hey Batter Batter!!!

I used the Artistic Outpost Cracker Jack baseball card frame and stamped on white cardstock. I stamped the Boston baseball player on a separate piece of white cardstock and colored him with copic markers, added red pinstripes and then I cut him out and popped him up on the card frame. I then mounted the baseball card on red cardstock.

I really like this blue designer paper with red polka dots so I used that for my card base designer paper. I added a baseball bat from a SU sports set. I stamped the baseball word in Tim Holtz weathered wood. Stamped the Greatest past time in black ink and used a circle punch to round the end to look like a tab. I mounted that on red cardstock and trimmed the end of that piece with the circle punch as well.

I used a SU star punch for the blue star which I outlined with the red Copic Atchou glitter pen. I added 3 star eyelets. I used my crop-a-dile to fasten the eyelets.

This would be a great guy birthday card.

As we celebrate both our new summer releases as well as our new website, we're offering 20% off both the unmounted and mounted versions of Cracker Jack and She-roes. Please enter the following coupon code at check-out: cj-sr-20off We are also offering 20% the purchase of both She-roes and Hero unmounted sets. This is a special item in our store located here. (Please note you can not combine the coupon code with this set. However, you can purchase this bundle at 20% off and use the coupon code to purchase Cracker Jack. Coupon offer ends May 31, 2009.)

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the other Design Team and Guest Design eam members blogs for more samples using the two new sets. I personally have two more samples after today so be sure to stop back.

Have a great one!

Cathy

Artistic Outpost Cracker Jack Vintage Baseball is Here!

May means summer at Artistic Outpost. We love the warmer weather, however, as we write this it has rained for 48 hours straight. Bring on the SUN!!!

Our two brand new releases for the season are sure to become some of your new favorites celebrating heroes of different kinds, the boys of summer and our armed forces. We are pleased to release Cracker Jack & She-roes.

Enjoy Cracker Jack...
Our love of baseball runs deep. Childhoods were spent at the ballpark either playing ourselves or watching our brothers. At the turn of the century, when baseball became an American passion, gentleman wore hats and ties to the game, the players rode the subway to Ebbets field in Brooklyn, and there was no such thing as the "replay".We hope you enjoy this collection, inspired by the great players, and the original ball clubs that inspired a nation.

A little about She-roes...
Women have always carried half the sky. During WWII, women began carrying their half in the armed forces as well. Whether they were nursing the sick or flying in the Women's Air Corp, this collection celebrates our "she-roes".

Both collection are available in unmounted sheets or pre-cut on EZ Mount cling foam.

As we celebrate both our new summer releases as well as our new website, we're offering 20% off both the unmounted and mounted versions of Cracker Jack and She-roes. Please enter the following coupon code at check-out: cj-sr-20off We are also offering 20% the purchase of both She-roes and Hero unmounted sets. This is a special item in our store located here. (Please note you can not combine the coupon code with this set. However, you can purchase this bundle at 20% off and use the coupon code to purchase Cracker Jack.)

Be sure to check out the rest of the DT and Guest DT members blogs to see all the new release

Lisa Somerville

Gerrie Johnnic

Kelly Burton

Michelle Murphy

Debby Boltman

Debi Wind

Judy Hayes

Lynn Stevens

Rachel Baird

Robin Willis

Sharon Briss

Susan Conrad

Toni Tessler

See you tomorrow with more new release samples!

Cathy