Follow your Dreams

I've been wanting to make more long and tall cards and I just don't know why it take challenges to spur me on to do them. Oh well, I finally got off my duff and made this one for the World Stamping Week challenge on 2 Peas in a Bucket. The challenge called for a long and skinny card measuring about 4" by 9" that will fit in a business size envelope.

Also, on CPS this week, guess what the layout sketch was? Yep! It too was for a long and tall card. So I used the CPS sketch and made my "follow your dreams" baseball card for both challenges following this sketch:

I used a baseball collage stamp made by Paper Inspirations. I tried many different colors of ink and background colors for this card. Finally I decided to stamp in black and emboss it and not do any coloring on the image with the exception of the stiching on the baseballs. I like how it looks. The red dot background paper is from Stampin' UP! and I used my cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder for the blue background. The neat Baseball brad is made by a company called Hot off the Press. I've had the printed grossgrain ribbon which says follow your dreams forever and have never used it so this just seemed perfect. The red grossgrain ribbon was a little piece in my sewing machine drawer that matched well so I grabbed it for this card.

VOILA! My tall and skinny card for WSW: Long and Tall Challenge as well as this week's CPS challenge # 69.

Thanks for looking.