cc ~ Enjoy the Journey!

Hi friends! I have the pleasure of guest designing for the Catered Crop today! The current challenge is {Map It}. My first card was scrapped due to my hubby thinking it was way too busy!! So I came up with a cleaner more simple card.  Hope you like it! Hope he does too, he's at work and hasn't seen it yet ~ HA!!!  

edit: He's given his stamp of approval!! His words "much better!"

I put together this small collage of items. The Stampabilities compass was stamped in Smokey Shadow ink then colored with markers. A gem in the center was added for a touch of sparkle! I glued a piece of a map to a tag, trimmed it, then added the twine. This cute suitcase by PSX is another of my very old stamps. I stamped it on kraft cardstock, colored with markers and then trimmed it out. I added silver accents to what I thought would be metal. Finally I die cut these MFT roses from a map then added gems to their centers. I found that rolling the thin map into the roses was a bit too flimsy. So before die cutting, I glued the map pieces to scraps of white cardstock. It made the roses look much better. I did some selective inking on my PR sentiment and love the way it looks here!

That's it for me today. This card will be shown at the Catered Crop blog this Sunday along with the rest of the design team. I hope you'll stop by to check out the challenge and play along!! ~Lisa