For the VSN Hostess challenge we had to create a card that depicted a favorite childhood memory. We were raised on a farm and never took a vacation, ever! So my favorite thing to do was riding horses. My favorite chore was to go get the cows in the summer and loved when they were turned out to the prairie meadow. It looked huge and when I sat in that maple tree by the house I could watch the wind move the plant life and pretend it was the ocean. In my card that would be Cookie and I heading back to the path after the cows have spent their time in the pond down there on the left. Up the hill on the right just out of the photo is the little cemetery where the old homesteader and his wife are buried. The flowers represent the ones that grew wild on the meadow and the ribbon – well, that’s for the silly dresses my mother would try to get me in when company was coming. I always managed to get back inside and into blue jeans before the day was over.
My coloring is not that great but hey we only had forty five minutes to finish. This is portions of two main stamps and small stamps to finish off the landscape. Watercolor crayons for coloring.
I tie and heat the ribbon before it goes on the card and tape it to the back.
Date: Monday, June 19, 2006 GMT Views: 713
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Stamps: SU – retired Scenery, Linen, Stampendous – right side and pond area, Stamp Scapes – background tree and girl on horse
Paper: Two shades of navy and light blue, white c/s
Ink: StazOn – black
Accessories: Watercolor crayons, aqua painter, stamp positioner, heat gun for ribbon, brads, flowers, black marker for some fill in for landscape, double and single sided tape
Techniques: Heated ribbon
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 1 if your good with a stamp positioner
Amazing how you put all those pieces together to create such a great scene! I can sure identify with this and especially the ribbon and flower part (hated those dresses!!)
------------------------------ Judy, aka greenstalker I wish someone would call me "ma'am" just once without adding "you are making a scene"!
Registered: April 20, 2006 Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula Posts: 34762
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 @ 8:04 AM
Me again -- I just read your story -- loved it -- I can relate to no vacations -- we are dairy farmers -- we get 3 nights a year, early August -- and I am really looking forward to it!!! Thanks for sharing!!!