Ai Challenge #90, Incorporate Newspaper

Hello and happy Thursday!
Today is Challenge 90 over at the Ai Blog today. And the challenge is to incorporate "Newspaper" into your card. Well, it's kinda funny how I came about my card. A couple of weeks ago I received some junk mail in my mail box. It looked like a regular handwritten letter, but inside was a half a page of newspaper about the "Financial Markets". Well since I purchased Ai Slots Jean stamp SKU# 3510 a while back, I thought of combining the newspaper with Slots Jean for this weeks challenge. (Wealth and slot machines, hehe!) I think it turned out! Its kind of fun too!
I used a square 5-1/2"x5-1/2" kraft card base, and layered that with orange SU! cardstock. Then I cut down the newspaper making sure title was showing front and center at the top. I adhered the newspaper to a piece of white cardstock, cut it down so it would fit on top the orange cardstock, and ran it through a spots embossing folder. (I had to run it through twice because it was A2 size folder, and my card is bigger than that size). Then I took my tea dye ink and sponged dye ink all over the entire embossed newspaper image, so you can see the dry embossing better. I love that distressed look. Then I sewed the layers together. I stamped "Slots Jean" SKU# 3510, in black, and colored her in with copic markers. (NOTE: I always pick out my designer paper FIRST and then color my image in according to the colors of the designer paper-that makes it SO MUCH EASIER). Then I layered the colored image onto kraft cardstock, and distressed the edges. I layered "Slots Jean" over the designer paper, and for embellishments I added two color coordinated buttons threaded with natural twine. I decided my card needed a little something more, so I added a strip of red small scallops border

 

For the inside of my card I stamped the two sentiment images that come in the Slots Jean stamp set,  SKU# 3510. The word "Jackpot" was colored in with a red copic marker. Well that's it for my Ai Challenge #90 post. Please stop by the Art Impressions blog and see what the other Ai design team members have come up with for the newspaper challenge. Play along with us too! You could win a $10.00 Ai stamps certificate! Thanks for stopping by.

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