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This week I (Cora)am the guest designer.  I had off Monday and thought it would be fun to participate in the guest designer challenge.

This week I have two images from old Harley Davidson ads from the 20's.  I always love these images because both of my brothers are bike riders and these images make an easy cards.

Instructions:
First I stamped a large background image from Darcie's using Distress Ink Peacock Feathers on a kraft paper card.  I get these cards from Hobby Lobby and just love how they take the stamped image.  I then rubbed some Snow Cap color Adirondack dabber paint on top of the stamped image to tone it down a little.  I printed the motorcycle image in sepia 2x.  Then cut out the motorcycle and use foam tape to make it stick up from the background sepia image.  This gives the card a little feeling of motion.   Before glueing all the pieces I rub them with a small Versafine ink pad in Pinecone.  This one of my favorite tools.  I have an old versafine mini ink pad I have used for years and it adds just the right amount of distress to the edges.  I misted the whole card with pearl mists in several colors as a finishing touch.

 This tag was made using the same image as above.  The background is inked with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink and then stamped with Paper Lace 2 by Fed B Mullet using Ranger Archival Ink in Olive. The metal tape strip in the background is embossed Tim Holtz Alterations embossing folder.  You can get a whole roll of this tape from a hardware store.  I then treated the embossed image with several colors of Vintaj patina paints for metal.  I am not sure who manufactures the brads.  I applied the bike image and the Happy Birthday with foam tape.

Here are the two images for this week.  Make sure to share what you make with these cool images.

My Bio:
My name is Cora Harkins and I have been paper crafting for over 20 years.  I taught classes at a local scrapbooking store and had a stamp line for awhile.  My college education is in costume and set design.  I ended up going into another field but never lost my passion for vintage clothing, surfaces and history.  I started collecting magazines as sort of a living reference library for my costumes.

Several years ago I started to share my images online with all of you on my two blogs Clearly Vintage and Digital Two for Tuesday.  Every week in the summer and fall I scour flea markets looking for magazines, old photos and postcards to share.  It is a labor of love to post these images.  I save the magazines from being cut up by well meaning Ebay sellers who buy them to take apart and sell piece by piece.   Many of the vendors know me now and save things for me and you.  You can see my artwork at my blog Paper Flowers.

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This week we have two images from The Little Book House Volume 6 A Bigger World first published in 1920.  I got 6 of these volumes last week at the flea market and could not wait to share.  Our guest designer this week is Helen.  This is the 2nd time that Helen is hosting and she has not let us down.  Helen has created two beautiful projects.  I love her coloring technique and the paper she has chosen for accents.  I know her work will be an inspiration to all of you to take the challenge.  Here is a description of her cards in her own words.

"I am so glad that Cora asked me to do another project for her. She has such beautiful images. I really hope I did these justice. I have a blog it is at http://tomorrowstreasure.blogspot.com I also have a challenge blog you can get to from that site.

I thought the Queen was perfect for a mom's day card, or to a friend, or your daughter. For A birthday or... She is so beautiful and I wanted her to come to life. I thought the black with colors would work. The two on the horse was really fun to do also. I was thinking like the white horse nursery rhyme- "to see a fine lady upon a h white horse" it is a really nice image to work with. Thanks Cora for such great images and for being able to show them.

To do these projects I used mark-its and color pencils with OMS. DP is DCWV, CS is The Angel Company.

Thanks! This is my blog http://tomorrowstreasure.blogspot.com/ "