Hi all! This month's Designer Challenge from Karen Burniston was so much fun! The theme was 'Fly'. We were all asked to interpret the theme in whatever way we wanted. It's such a great one - there are so many different directions you can go with that one little word. Birds, butterflies, hot air balloons, just to name a few. I decided to use some of my favorite stamps from Artistic Outpost to make an aviation-themed card for my husband. Since he works with airplanes, it's always one of my favorite themes to work with. I wanted the front to look like the skin of an airplane and I love how it turned out! You might remember me using the waste material from Karen's polka dot border die as rivets, which I did again here. I think they're so cool looking! Here is the card in the open position. Since this was a vintage flight theme, I thought it would be fun to make the inside of the card look like the leather on a flight jacket. I used the Faux Suede technique that can be found on Ranger's web site and it turned out even better than I expected. I added a little twist that gave it an extra crackly look. Read below to see how I created my card: Because I only wanted the foil tape on the outside edge of the card, I cut a piece of kraft cardstock to almost the exact size of the die and applied the tape to the outer edges. I used the Sizzix Magnetic Platform and cut my first panel. After cutting the foil panel, I cut the second panel from kraft cardstock. Next, I covered thin chipboard with foil tape and use the Polka Dot border die to cut it, saving the waste (circles) to use as brads. I added small bits of metal foil tape on top of the large area on the card to create patches. A tracing wheel can be used to add little faux rivets. For the faux leather, I stamped pieces of kraft cardstock with the crackle stamp and inked over the surface randomly. Next, I sprayed the cardstock with ink refresher and crumpled. After smoothing it out, I added more ink to highlight the wrinkles. While the faux leather cardstock was drying, I finished the front. I applied a light coating of black Distress paint to the foil and wiped it off. Since I accidentally got it on the card, I decided to paint the whole thing black. :) After that dried, I stamped the collage of Charles twice on kraft cardstock. One was cut with the matching frame die and adhered to the card. I cut the image of him out of the other and adhered it with pop dots. After the faux leather dried, I cut it with the solid frame die and ran the pieces through the Xyron, then adhered them to both of the panels. Love the beveled edges! Finally, I stamped the sentiment on kraft cardstock, cut the words out and adhered them to a piece of black cardstock. I cut them out again, leaving a small border of black around each word. The propeller was stamped onto chipboard, cut out, and given a coating of Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel. After I adhered the words and propeller, I attached the two panels and my card was done! Such a fun card! It would make a perfect Father's Day card, or a great masculine birthday card. All the supplies I used can be purchased from Inspiration Emporium via the links below. Remember to use my coupon code - stamptramp - to score 10% off your order! Karen Burniston Accordion Fancy Label Karen Burniston - Fancy Frame Edges Square With Circle Frame Edges Sizzix Magnetic Platform Artistic Outpost - Charles and Amelia Stampers Anon - Cracks and Specks Ranger Kraft Cardstock 12x12 Inkssentials Metal Foil Tape Idea-olgy Mini Gears Idea-ology Tiny Fasteners Mini Distress Ink - Kit 6 Distress Paint - Black Soot Inkssentials Ink Refresher Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel 8 oz Inkssentials Blending Tool Black Soot Distress Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Inkssentials Wonder Tape 1/4" Vagabond Idea-ology Sanding Grip InLinkz.com Make sure you check out the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog on Wednesday to see what the team has come up with, along with a very cool new card idea from Karen - you will be amazed! Thanks so much for stopping by today! I promise, I'll try to get back to posting more regularly. Then again, I have some baby chicks coming in the mail in a couple days, so I might be preoccupied for a bit! ;)