A card that took literally weeks to make is finally born. 😊 Stay to the end of the post to here more about the giveaway.Today's card is one that has been put together in stages. The image is from artbymiran on etsy. You can find her here. The cowgirl was colored with copics weeks ago. She has been sitting in my cut out container just waiting to be added to a card.
I knew I wanted to have a wood grain background for the card. I don't own a wood grain stamp nor an embossing folder that does this. So what to do? MayMayMade it to the rescue. I watched this video that teaches you three different techniques to make a woodgrain background. You can watch it here. This was exactly what I was looking for. So maybe a couple of weeks ago I made the background piece using peacock feathers distress ink. My "planks" aren't very straight but I love the effect. It was super easy.
Then last weekend I took that background and die cut it using my memory box cross stitched rectangle dies. I also die cut the two banner pieces out of Recollections paper using a Papertrey Ink die.
Finally yesterday, I put it all together with another scrap of cardstock I had. I added the sentiment from my word stickers I made.
You can see a close up of those stickers by reading my blogpost here. This is a word document I made for my use and am happy to share. I just printed these out on cricut sticker paper and cut out when I need one.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #496 found here.
Creative Fingers Challenge: #130 Anything Goes found here.
Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge: Week # 19 Anything Goes Found here.
****Giveaway****
Go to my blogpost here to see more about the giveaway that will be drawn June 2, 2017.
2 comments:
Great card, love that you tried something new too, looks great, thank you for joining us this week at Digi Choosday, Julie DT x
Very cute card. I thought the background was a worn denim look. Great idea.
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