Pasture Circlet from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans!!

Today I'm sharing 5092 – Pasture Circlet MTF.

I recently bought a fabric denim paper pad and a burlap paper pad and have been anxious to use them. 

I was worried about cutting through 3 layers of paper, the denim and the burlap and still keeping them all lined up properly so I didn't do the traditional tryfold card the way these are meant to be used.  I cut them all and then stacked them with foam tape and adhered them to the front of the card.

I used my Arteza brush pens to color it.

Horse Shoes for Father's Day

Hello and happy Monday!

Today I'm sharing a long overdue card.  I meant to post this when it was actually NEAR Father's Day and somehow it got lost in the shuffle. 

My friend requested a card with a "horse shoes" theme. Not having any stamps for that I decided to print something off the internet and go with a country western theme.

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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Sending Well Wishes horse card

Hello and happy Wednesday to you all!

Today I'm sharing a card that helped me realize how lucky I am.  I have a friend who recently challenged her other friends to help out a man she knows.  He has MS and has been struggling both physically and financially lately.

She was asking for everything from a kind word, prayer or as little as a $1 donation to help him out and let him know that people are thinking of him and he's not alone.

I was challenged to that darned "ice bucket" challenge going around on FB and for many reasons I didn't want to participate in it.  I chose to help Carl out by making this card and sending a donation to him instead.

I was told he's a "horse guy" so I hope he likes this.

The beautiful horses are from the long since "retired" PSX company.  The verse is from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Here's the inside of the card. 

Here's a close up of the leather lace, twine and metal embellishments.

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

Country Horses

This image of a mother with her foal is so pretty. It's a retired PSX stamp that I got a while back. This is an older card. One that I sold at the craft show I did. But... as I said, I've been so busy showing the house and keeping it picked up that I really haven't had time to craft. I stamped the image on Craft paper and colored it with colored pencils. It's mounted on a background made with my crackle stamp. I used denim paper and a coordinating stripe and then accented with a burlap ribbon and twill bow attached to a metal clip. It's pretty simple but the lady who bought it seemed to like it.