Feminine Trucking Along Card

Trucking Along is a brand new bundle from Stampin' Up. You can find it on the web site if you click on "Shop Products" then scroll down to "Online Exclusives". You will find many other online exclusives there that aren't in any catalog, from stamp sets, to kits and even past Paper Pumpkin kits (and add-ons) if you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber. Go check it out! 

For now, I am having such fun playing with the Trucking Along stamp set and builder punch. When we see a truck set, we usually think of masculine cards, but I'm here to day to show you that it can make a wonderful feminine card also. It has many little stamps that you can use to put something in the back of the truck, including a tree that you can make a great Christmas card. There are also sentiments for Christmas and all purpose ones, like the one we are using today--you can use this as a birthday card, or, as I plan to, a get well card. 

Let's make this card! Gather your supplies 

1. Thick Basic White cardstock --Card base 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" scored on the long side at  4 1/4" and folded along the score line. 

2. Basic White cardstock--a 1/2" piece for the sentiment and cut the 3rd smallest Countryside Corners die out

3. Highland Heather cardstock--4" by 5 1/4" piece and a scrap for the truck

4. Fresh Freesia cardstock--3 7/8" by 5 1/8" piece

5. Stamp Sets--Trucking Along

6. Dies--Trucking Along and Countryside Corners

7. Ink--Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather, Smokey Slate and Memento Black

8. Festive Pearls

9. Ribbon--Black and White Gingham Ribbon, about 14"

10. Basics 3D Embossing Folder (an on-line exclusive pack of 3 Embossing Folders--I used the crosshatch one)

11. Blends--Light Smokey Slate. 

12. Basic supplies--bone folder, Paper Snips, adhesive (I like Multipurpose Glue), Paper Trimmer, Glue Dots or Tear 'N Tape, Take Your Pick Tool, Die Cutting and Embossing Machine

Lets start with stamping the outline of the truck using Highland Heather ink on the Fresh Freesia paper. Stam the truck starting upper right across in a line. For the next line, put the cab in between the bottom wheels of 2 trucks and branch out from there. Keep going down until you've stamp the whole piece of paper--to watch how I did it please watch my Facebook Live below or go to my YouTube channel at Stamp with Dr Robin. Don't forget to subscribe to me!

Attach this paper to the Highland Heather piece and then to the front of your card.

Using Memento Black ink, stamp the truck outline on a scrap of Highland Heather cardstock and punch it out. I love a good punch and this one works well and is easy to use. Take your Countryside Corners piece of Basic White cardstock and figure out where your truck will go and stamp the outline of the flowers and pots (in Memento Black) where they will be in the back of the truck. Stamp the dots that are the flowers in Fresh Freesia ink--I stamped it multiple times. You can also use these 2 stamps on the inside.

 Stamp the lines below the truck in Smokey Slate. Now run that whole thing through your Die Cutting and Embossing Machine inside the crosshatch Basics 3D Embossing folder. Attach your truck with Dimensionals as below.

Tie a loose bow with the Black and White Gingham ribbon and attach it with Glue Dots or Tear 'N Tape. Attach your truck piece with Dimensionals. Stamp the sentiment on a 1/2" piece of Basic White in Fresh Freesia. Flag the right end and attach with a Dimensional on the right side and glue to the white on the left side as below. 

Below is my Facebook Live from 7/17/23 where I make this card and show you some tips to help with the cardmaking. Join me every Monday at 1 pm PST for some cardmaking fun over on Stamp with Dr Robin on Facebook. Or follow me on YouTube with the same name (be sure to hit the Subscribe button while you are there). And let me know if you have questions. You can click on the red Robin above left to order from my store. 

Happy Stampin',

Robin