This vintage sled stamp was another one of my yet-to-be-used stamps that I could not figure out what to do with. It's an old PSX stamp which means I just had to have it. Yesterday's coffee cup brought instant inspiration. I created the background with one of my favorite snowflake stamps from Art Impressions. To create my squares to stamp my letters in I used an inch punch and then inked the edges with brown chalk ink. I used one of the new stitched tape runners from Daisyd's to create the border. (I'm not really crazy about these. I didn't feel they were that easy to use and there's a lot of wasted product trying to get it to work.)
This sled reminds me of one of my favorite Christmas decorations I put on my front porch every year. I put out an old rusty sled just like the one in this picture. I hang my old ice skates from when I was young on them. I've added some evergreen branches and some lights to it. It looks darling!
4 comments:
OH! I have this sled and I love what you did with it. I'm using it on my envelopes this year. I, however, was not inspired by a coffee cup. Only grownups drink coffee and I am not grown up. But I am old enough to have a rusty sled hanging in the garage at the farm where I grew up. Thanks for the memories, Louise.
Love your souce of inspiration and you must take a picture of that sled and show us - please!
I love the red and white. Coffee and the cups they come in always inspire me too...
I love this. I would have never thought to use that color with snow flakes. I also have an old sled. My mom gave it to me in 1977 it is painted with my name and the year. It was stolen a few years ago, so she got me another and painted it the same way. it's not the original but it works. SO, I keep it inside now as part of my inside decor. Love old sleds
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