Thursday’s Way to use it challenge was fun! It was called “It’s in the Notes”. We were to be inspired by Music.  While doing my morning chores I was thinking what sets I have and what would work for that challenge. Then the Rocket from Pun Fun popped into my mind along with Elton Johns’ “Rocket Man”. I was singing that song in my head all day Thursday.

I started by deciding what Designer paper I wanted to use with the stamp.

I picked the striped paper from the Western Sky Designer paper and picked my colors from that paper.

The Rocket was stamped in Black StazOn on a 2″ x 2 1/4″ piece of Watercolor Paper.

I colored it in with Aqua Painter and Classic inks (River Rock, Blue Bayou, Ruby Red and Soft Sky).

I layered the watercolor paper on a 1/4″ bigger sponged piece of Blue Bayou cardstock and paper pierced the edges.

My card base was a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of textures Soft Sky cardstock. I cut 1″ off the front of the card and layered the inside of it with a 4″ square of Ruby Red. I liked how the red of the inside peeked out.

The top of the card front was layered with a 3″ x 4″ piece of the Western Sky Designer paper. I added a 1/4″ x 4″ strip of paper pierced white cardstock on the lower part of it and tied Double Stitched Blue Bayou ribbon over it.

For my accents I punched  three small stars out of Ruby Red cardstock. I sponged all three, layered them with 1/4″ River Rock circles and added a black brad in each center.

The top right corner looked a little empty so I added a double Photo corner  out of sponged Blue Bayou and sponged Ruby Red cardstock. The photo corner were topped with three black brads.