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| farm illustration from a falling apart old book; sunflowers from my aunt, i cannot imagine WHERE (or why!!!) she had them, but they're great on cards if you nip the stems off!); chicken brad: eyelet outlet; cloud chipboard: october afternoon; cardstock label sticker: crate paper; alphabet stamps: freckled fawn (colored with red prismacolour pencil); "girlfriend" stamp: unity; patterned papers: dcwv, crate paper; ink: ranger archival (for stamping) and colorbox cat's eye chalk ink (for edges); adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, tiny bit of hot glue for the sunflowers |
i was slightly shocked to discover, in the course of planning my card, that except for the admittedly AWESOME eyelet outlet chicken brads, i don't own ANY products with farm animals on them. go figure! i do however, have quite a nice stash of falling-apart vintage children's books that i grab up at garage sales... (people are always stunned that i'm actively seeking the ones whose covers are dangling and which contain more scribbled-on pages than clean, lol!) ...this page from a visual dictionary seemed like the PERFECT background for the theme!
i'm jumping in on retro rubber's "critter time" challenge again, since i have an animal or two (or six!) on here, lol. i also have a couple of older stamps in play: i've inked only half of unity's, "hey girlfriend" sentiment (which was an xmas present some years ago... maybe... 2012ish?) and swapped out the "hey" for the more farm-centric "hay" using a freckled fawn alphabet* i treated myself to last summer.
need a little more rustic inspiration? head on over to the SOS blogstead, y'all, and check out the DT's amazing creations!
*this has since become my all-time favorite alphabet set, and i'm so pleased i grabbed it at the time, because when i went back like 2 weeks later it was GONE... and i've never seen it for sale ANYWHERE since then! carpe deal-um, my friends; seize the clearance sale bargains!!! :)
You've made a wonderful card again out of it seems like ' bits and bobs' and left overs. Fab.
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perfect, makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteYou win the stash bustin' again. Awesome card, fab use of the old page. I would just love to have 1/100th of your talent.
ReplyDeleteI always look forward to your cards, because you use the most original items to add to them! The farm scene from an old book! That chicken brad! WHO KNEW there was such a thing as a chicken brad?!!! Seriously fabulous card!
ReplyDeleteAnother brilliant media mix for our critter challenge. Thanks for mentioning the age of the Unity stamp. Using children's books for your backdrop is an idea I may pass on to my friends who don't stamp. That would be a great source of inspiration for an easy card. The additional details in this card really steps it up. Thanks so much for sharing with Retro Rubber!
ReplyDeleteI am forever amazed at your super-power of combining so many different things into the most cohesive design ... fabulous.
ReplyDeletePERFECT! Absolutely love this dictionary page! You win! But I do find it hard to believe that you only had chicken brads... c'mon, Lauren... really... ha! Cheers, love this.
ReplyDeleteI love it! Way cool!
ReplyDeleteThis is so fun!! I love how you used paper from an old book!!
ReplyDeleteSo hard to resist a good pun! Lovely recycling too.
ReplyDeleteNice card. Thanks for playing along with Retro Rubber!
ReplyDeleteLove your sweet country card! The "HAY" made me laugh - thanks for that! Cute way to use old children's books although I don't think I would have the guts to do it! LOL Thanks for playing along with us at Retro Rubber and hope you will be back soon.
ReplyDeleteAdorable card! I can't believe you used an old children's book - great idea! Plus that brad! Love! Thanks for playing along again with Retro Rubber!
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