I Brake For Cowboys!

Hello and happy Saturday!

Today I'm sharing another Christmas card with you.

This one features the image COWBOY CHRISTMAS.

This is a great image if you're looking for a quick card.  As detailed as this stamp is the majority of it is to be left white since it's snow covered.  There isn't a whole lot to be colored so you could knock out a bunch of them quickly.

I love those mountains in the background.

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I Brake For Cowboy Boots!

Hello and Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I'm sharing a western themed image with you.

This stamp is called COWBOY BOOTS.

Although my sister's birthday isn't until August I may set this aside for her.  She LOVES the western theme.  I know she'd love these boots and hat.  Inside I used a birthday verse from EVERY DAY PHRASES.

Here's a close up of the fantastic image.

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Birthday wishes

Here's hopin' you rope in all your birthday wishes!  This is one of my cute new sentiments from Art Impressions.    I thought it would be cute with my "oldie but goodie"  horse from PSX.  They've been out of business for a while but I still love the detail in their stamps.  I kept this one very simple choosing not to color the image.  I didn't even do mattes behind anything which I ALWAYS do.  I just sponged some ink around the edges to give them some dimension.   Here's something pretty cool...are there any Duff Goldman fan's out there? (Ace of Cakes)  My kids and I really love to watch his show.  All of his team are so darn talented!  Well,  I DON'T bake at all but when I saw his line of fondant embossing molds I knew they would probably look great on paper as well.  So, that's what I used to emboss the piece below the horse.  It's a basket weave and it looked "western" to me so I went for it.  Isn't it cool?  I'll bet he never thought people would be using his cake tools to make cards!

Just FYI if any of you are considering going out and getting some of these texture tiles here's how I did it...

Sandwich recipe:  A plate, B plate, texture plate, paper, rubber embossing mat, B plate.  I did spritz my paper with water first to get a better impression.  I did this because I didn't dare shim the mold and risk cracking it since it's not as sturdy a plastic as real paper embossing plates are.  I used them 3 or 4 times and so far so good. 

Card makings...
Stamps: Art Impressions, PSX
metal star and button
Sizzix embossing corner die
rope ribbon
self adhesive leather ribbon
Charm City Cakes Texture Tiles (basketweave)
Spellbinders label dies

Howdy Cowboy!

This is another pair of Art Impressions stamp that I just love. (the cowboy and the wagon wheel)I think the western theme is a lot of fun to work with. I did 2 cards, basically the same but reversed the paper and swapped out a light colored twill for a brown ribbon. I colored the images with my water color pencils. The wood plank corners and Howdy are from Rubbernecker and the hinges (which you see on a lot of my cards) are from Cornish Heritage Farms. The cowboy's head and the wagon wheel are mounted on dimensionals for a 3-D effect and you can that if you look for the shadows in the photo. I inked around the edges of the matte to give it a "dirty" cowboy coming in from the range feel. There is also a metal loop brad that I tied some twine onto. I don't normally put small photos on my blog but since I wanted to show so many here I made 2 of them small. You can click on them to see them larger if you like. I had a lot of fun making these!