When I first saw this stamp set in the new catalog I thought it would be great for masculine cards since we live in rural Indiana....little did I know we would be heading into such a summer for our farming families. The drought will surely affect the corn harvest though it looks like the beans have been saved by the late rains. All this to say, we truly feel blessed to have any kind of harvest coming this year.
Today's Ways to Use It challenge was to use clouds and I thought right away about the new blue that I'm really loving, Midnight Muse so I used that and my cloud template to sponge a sky strip. I stamped my tractor in Versafine Onyx and watercolored with a paintbrush and ink from the lids of Gumball Green, Garden Green, Basic Black and Daffodil Delight. I used a layout I used the other day with a Midnight base with score lines. The sentiment and all the rest were stamped onto Natural White. I added a button with denim threads. I popped the tractor image with dimensionals
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012 GMT Views: 2341
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Registered: October 19, 2007 Location: Packer Country, WI Posts: 71809
Thu, Aug 23, 2012 @ 1:55 PM
Love this card. I like the placement of your tractor. I love those new colors on this card. This tractor is not the ones you see today. It's amazing how BIG they have gotten. Glad to hear the beans are atleast doing ok. tfs
Registered: June 6, 2008 Location: Manitoba Posts: 3557
Thu, Aug 23, 2012 @ 2:47 PM
This is lovely! Love your pretty clouds! Glad to hear there will be some crops saved. Farming is always as challenge, we had nothing for crops last year but things are looking up this year.
Registered: March 15, 2012 Location: Alabama Posts: 11018
Thu, Aug 23, 2012 @ 6:31 PM
Your watercoloring is so wonderful!!! Love your perfectly "John Deere" green tractor and your lovely billowing clouds!!! I think those added score lines look fantastic! I really need to try that sometime! Fabulous card!!!
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Registered: January 7, 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 42705
Fri, Aug 24, 2012 @ 12:37 AM
What a fantastic job with this challenge. I love the layout with your scored lines and the fabulous coloring on the tractor. The clouds are perfection!
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