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retro music style

Seize the Birthday #290-Retro is the current challenge and after some thought and a bit of online research, I came up with this. I took a leaf out of a stamping buddy’s book and used the Internet as I have nothing like this in my stash.

I found a site that has freebies of various designs and this cassette tape was one of them. It was designed to be a small opening card. Playing on the computer trying to resize or change something wasn’t in my horizon today, so I printed it up and then took it to my lightbox so I could trace it onto card stock. I coloured and fussy cut it out, did the same for the label and adhered it. a little hand printing and some silver for the tiny corner screws, along with a small sentiment from a very old SSS set and I had the cassette done. Using a small circle die from Hero Arts I die cut the 2 discs and added some silver lines before placing them onto the rectangle piece. After adding foam to the cassette I popped it on top. The music paper is from an old music book, cut to what I wanted in size, and then added some ink to age it a little more. My original intention was to put it all onto a black card front, but I accidentally put it on the wrong side of the folded card. Grrr! Anyway I cut the panel down a bit more and then added it as you see it in the photo. I guess you could say that my creativity today is all about doing it myself instead of stamping and/or die cutting.

One of the design team at Word Art Wednesday suggested that I enter this into their current anything goes challenge so here goes.

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    1. Thanks. I remember making cards this way long before I knew about stamping images, let alone die cutting them.

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  7. So very creative you were making this card. Some of the same techniques that I use when I don’t have the best stamps or dies. It is fun I think. That cassette brings back memories. Thanks for sharing it with us at Seize the Birthday Challenge.

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  10. You went above and beyond for our Retro Topping, Johanna! Talk about taking the challenge and running with it. Awesome cassette tape and card. Thanks for playing at Seize the Birthday.

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  11. Love this fabulous cassette tape card! Makes me think of ‘mixed tapes’ we used to make. Wonderful retro card – thanks so much for playing along with us at Seize the Birthday.

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  12. First off Johanna I’m honored that you took such great pains to create a retro designed card for my challenge. This is just wonderful!!! Would you believe that I still had all of my cassettes up until just a handful of years ago. (8 tracks went bye-bye decades ago. ROFL!) We appreciate you so much at Seize the Birthday! — Jules

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