Showing posts with label western card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label western card. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

Cowboy Wisdom


There are a number of phrases that come
from the cowboy, cowgirl and western experience.
Life on a ranch leads to a very practical blunt wisdom
that sometimes has to lived to be understood fully.
It's a lot like living the Christian life. You
just can't completely comprehend it until you have lived it.

This phrase is very appropriate for any new venture.
Once you are on that bronc the are only two final
results. You are either eating dirt or you
tough it out until the bronc is no longer bucking.
So when you mount up, you had better
be real sure it's worth the effort, cause
comin' down is not going to be a painless thing.
Is it worth it?

The background on this card is faux snakeskin.
For a basic tutorial go to Stampers Quest and do
a search for faux snakeskin. The edges
of the card have been sponged with black ink.

The bucking bronc image is from Bear Rubber.
It is stamped on ivory card stock and metallic fleck rust
embossing powder makes the image stand out.
Tearing out the image and "burning" the edges
with brown and then black ink adds to the
worn western look.

I cut closely around the PSP X computer generated
phrase and burned the edges on it as well.

The "ribbon" an EK Success punch layered over
light kraft card stock. The edges of the light
layer have been sponged with dark brown ink.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

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.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Wild, Wild West 2

Stamps by Queen's Dresser Drawer.
I love them, I love them, I love them.
The horseshoes are a Sizzix die cut. (love them too!)
The background is western gift wrap.
The easiest way to apply gift wrap to the whole
front of a card - one straight edge, line that up
with the top of the card,
turn card over and used remaining three
edges a guides, using a scissors to trim.

The images are stamped with VeraMark,
embossed with fineline black embossing powder
and trimmed to the desired size.
The edges are then distressed (a lot) and
sponged with black dye ink to give that burned look.
The paper rickrack was made with my Creat-A-Cut
paper cutter.

Wild, Wild West

Since I live on a ranch in western Nebraska
it is no big surprise that I have a special place
in my heart for western stamps and of course
western style cards.
The stamp on this card is by Sutter Enterprises. She
has some fantastic cowboy and cattle stamps.
A lot of the western cards that I make
are on a parchment cardbase. It just goes well
with the theme. The mottled looking
third layer from the top is actually wallpaper.
Wallpaper is a great resource for card makers.