Hereford Bull Card

This image by Sutter Enterprises is stamped in dark brown ink. There is a very light chalk application of green on the bottom and blue on the top.

The edges of the white card stock are sponged with the same dark brown ink that was used to stamp the image.

After the photo corners were applied, I glued it to a medium brown cardstock and then to a dark brown cardstock, trimming the dark brown with a decorative scissors.

The card base is a beige parchment, which is what I use for most of my western cards.

Western Cards

This is one of my favorite designs.

The stagecoach is stamped and embossed on real leather.

Dust your leather with talc first to get a clean embossed image.

I used a Coluzzle to get the nice clean shape.

The blade will not cut all the way through thicker leather,

but it does give you enough to enable one to

finish the cut nicely with a shape scissors.

Then the edges were sponged with dark brown ink for depth

and just because I like the look :-).

The leather is mounted on a torn and heavily sponged piece

of cardboard box. You can easily seperate the cardboard

with a plastic tooth pick that has the floss holder on one end.

Just slide it down the channel and "magic", the top

layer just comes right off. You may have to do

a little tweaking to get a technique that works well

for you, I personally have worn out several of those

toothpicks to get my treasured cardboard.

I used Distressed Inks to get that deep lucious brown

and finished the edges with black for the burned look.

The sponging really adds a lot of depth and character.

Decorative scissors were used on the layered borders.

This is not the best scan, but the card is now residing on someone's

mantle so I can't rescan for a better image, LOL.

Ginni's Card for her father

I am sharing this design with the permission of my friend Ginni.

Ginni lives in western Colorado and we have become

aquainted through the Lucy McGoo Yahoo group.

We share many thing in common.

We are both Christians, we both like the western

stamps and creating western style cards.

Ginni and I have managed to meet several times

over the past year at JLo's and we

both worked a stamp convention in August of 2007.

She is one of my treasured and talented friends.

Thanks, Ginni, for letting me share this special card

that you made for you dad on my blog,