This is my card for the MMTPT347 challenge "Whykickamoocow Meets the Wild, Wild West". Our cards this week should feature artifacts, lassos, dream catchers, log cabins; pictures of trading posts, cowboys and Indians, horses, boots....bring a touch of the wild, wild, west to Gene, who loves Louis L'Amour books and is a published author in his own right.
The only thing I own that is even remotely Western is this paper from My Mind's Eye. SInce it's actually 12 x 12, I scanned the corner with the cowboy and resized it in Photoshop before printing it out on medium weight cs. I sponged the edges with Distress Antique Linen, Old Paper, and Pumice Stone inks, lightly distressed the edges and matted it with a piece of black cs. I distressed those edges and attached the layer to a matching craft foam die cut.
I crated a flap-fold card base from Crumb Cake cs and heavily sponged the right edge with Pumice Stone ink. I stamped a piece of the same cs with the bookshelves stamp, also using Pumice STone ink, and cut it it to size. It was attached to the card base with Sookwang tape and the focal image added. You can't see it in the photo but I scored the small flap vertically every quarter inch for added interest.
As always, thanks for looking!
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Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28949
Wed, Mar 25, 2015 @ 8:15 AM
Love this card - that wooden background is perfect for this cowboy!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132012
Wed, Mar 25, 2015 @ 8:31 AM
Cool fold - and I see a background stamp that I have and love . Makes a great front for the card, and if that paper was all you had that was wild west themes, it was all you needed to make a perfect card.
Very cool card! Great designer paper and so creative how you used it! I have photoshop, but I still don't know that much about it. :( Maybe I will learn and be as good as you!
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92694
Wed, Mar 25, 2015 @ 11:23 AM
I truly envy your computer skills to alter, move, resize, superimpose, etc the printed image, Jody. This card is a FABULOUS masculine card in beautiful neutral tones.
Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Thu, Mar 26, 2015 @ 3:30 PM
And I thought I loved..." da Man "...as we know him...a lot of our fav. cowboy, but this paper made a wonderful design . great job with it and how you put it together...wonderful card for Gene....TFs..:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
Registered: May 23, 2009 Location: sunny california Posts: 9825
Fri, Mar 27, 2015 @ 6:03 PM
You are so cleaver, Jody. Using the book shelf stamp fir soneone that writes western novels. Your card is so well designed and has a terrific old western feel.
Registered: February 3, 2005 Location: Delray Beach, FL Posts: 34769
Sat, Mar 28, 2015 @ 4:32 PM
Oh, Jody, this is fabulous! I always struggle with masculine cards, so I appreciate a good guy card!! And I love how you did it by scanning the paper and resizing the image!! Yes, genius and a wonderful result!! Gene is going to love this!! Hugs!
------------------------------ Cheryl
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