Bday for BIL

My bil is a huge fan of anything

to do with the Old West.

I thought including a buffalo would make

a great masculine card for him.

 

I recently saw Jennifer McGuire

paint with colored embossing paste

so I thought that technique would be

perfect for the front, hairy part of

this buffalo.  I dyed the paste with

Distress Inks and Stain and applied

it with a paint brush after inking

my white cardstock with StazOn

brown ink. The buffalo is a

Silhouette file. I cut 4 and stacked

them all together.

 

 

The background is made on watercolor paper

with gelatos and Distress paint.

The tree is from Unity and the sentiment

is from PTI. I added a bit of grass around

his feet with Distress markers & Copics.

 

This is inspired by the Mix-Ability #76

Challenge to fingerpaint.



04.05.13 FWF

April!!  Even though

it is still pretty cold out here in MN,

the birds are back and it is

great to hear them singing.

No sign of any of my perennials

coming up although the

pansies survived the winter

and are the only green thing

out there so far!

Time for another Unity

FWF Hop! Check out

their BLOG for all the deets!

I've got a couple masculine

cards to share today.

One I made using

Teresa Collins Now & Then,

love these papers!

Stamps are heat embossed and are from

the Ippity set, Authentic Man.  I cut a window

and stamped the car, then framed it with

another diecut.



My second card is for

the Mix-Ability challenge #9 at SCS.

We were to use metal on our card.

I wrapped heavy duty aluminum

foil around corrugated cardboard,

ran it through my Big Shot and then

painted it with thinned, black craft

paint.  I sanded it so some of the

foil shines through and then 

removed the cardboard and sized
the foil for my card.

 I used Distress Inks

to color my card and tag.

The sentiment is from
Nothin' But Blue Skies.

Hope you have a great,

warm, sunny, springy

weekend!  Thanks for

stopping by and be blessed!