Monday, June 24, 2013

Boston Strong and Autumn Leaves


Hi folks! I've got two more cards from the recent CAS-ual Fridays Stamps release. They both feature, in a more non-traditional way, the first border stamp on the left from the Lotsa Links set.




A subway map. Why not, right?! I have to admit that I'm not exactly sure what occasion I'm going to use this card for, but I got it in my head that the smaller links looked like stops on a subway map, and I wanted to see what it would look like. So I picked Boston, since we got to know the subway a little during a prior vacation. I added the stops in small, messy letters, so there wouldn't be a ton of focus trying to read them all. I just wanted the general idea that they are subway stops.




It's so fun getting all your stamps out and playing with them. While doing this for the release projects, I was so excited to find out two things:

1) the tiny trio of four-squares from Only You exactly fills the middle of the small square links; and
2) the keys from Tech Talk fills the middle of the large square links.

I started by making a tree shape, with the large squares for the trunk, and the small squares for the branches. Then filled the branches to make the leaves, and filled the trunk with the asterisk key (it was the most generic one). Shading in the tree branches helped it look a little less stark. The sentiment is also from Only You, except the ampersand which is from an old PSX wooden alpha set.



Thanks so much for looking!
-Kelly

13 comments:

  1. That is an amazing subway map! Love it!

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  2. Kelly, you are beyond creative! I love the subway map and the tree! Very cool. :-)

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  3. Subway map - holy cow! This is so out of the box amazing! Love the bold colours! And I love the autumn colours of the tree! I LOVE designs that use stamps in unexpected ways like this!

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  4. What a creative mind you have! Love them both!

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  5. I LOVE that first card, as soon as I saw it on the blog over the weekend, I knew that was a Griglione! So clever and fantastic execution!

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  6. Any idea how brilliant you are and this card is? LOVE it!

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  7. Love that you've made a Boston subway map. Very creative use of these stamps. It's always nice to see stamps used in alternative fashions. Great cards. Bev

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  8. Clunk ... chin ... again! Incredible ideas, Kelly, and brilliant execution ... so fantastically out of the box! Just fabulous! Anita :)

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  9. Ha! Your subway inspired card reminds me of when we went to Japan! Their subway system is awesome and their maps are all color coded like your card. So nostalgic!

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  10. You are too brilliant you are Miss Kelly, I love the way your mind works like no other for sure, the cards are brilliant, you have won salesperson of the year for any stamps you use... Thanks for always sharing your awesome ideas and have a wonderful day.....

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  11. Oh my!! Subway map? Awesome awesome awesome!! Only you would think of that! Love how you wrote the names of the stops, that JFK right there used to be my daily stop at one point.

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  12. I recognized that subway map immediately. So cool! You are just too clever. :)

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I absolutely love reading comments. Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to leave one! - Kelly