Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Down on the Farm

Have you seen the awesome new brads in the Eyelet Outlet Fall Release? There are some really great ones this time, and I confess that the series of farm animals are some of my favorites. There are Roosters, Cow and Goat Brads, and Pig and Sheep Brads. There's even a cool Truck Brad that coordinates pretty well and of course we already had Ducks and Chickens (and Eggs!) and a bunch of other Animal Brads so the possibilities are pretty endless. I stuck with just the farm animals this time, though, and made a set of Artist Trading Cards.


I love the smaller size of ATC's. They are typically 2.5x3.5" ...the size of standard playing cards. In fact I've used some old playing cards as the base on which to build these.


I also like that ATC's are often created as a series of related cards, because you can choose one set of supplies, but make a bunch of different ideas.


For each of the cards in the farm series I've featured one of the new Farm Animals inside a vintage slide mount, then added them to a playing card covered in torn bits of ledger and map paper, as well as bits of dictionary pages with animal definitions on them.


I've added strips of Red Dot Washi and Skinny Gold Pattern Tape as accents.


Finally I used my old school Dymo Labeler to create an appropriate farm animal pun for each card: "Legendairy" for the Cow Brad, "Fowl Play" for the Rooster and Chicken, "No Kidding" for the Goat, "Sheep Thrills" for the Sheep and "Hogs and Kisses" for the cute Pigs.


I hope you'll be inspired to try out a smaller format like ATC's; and be sure to remember that Eyelet Outlet Brads are the perfect accents for this size!

5 comments:

  1. Okay.....so those are, like, the best things ever. Way awesome!!

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  2. You I love ATCs they are so much fun and yours are just awesome love those cute animals and the "punny" sayings.

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  3. Those grabbed my attention and put a huge smile on my face!
    ~ginny
    RubberMAD

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  4. omg these are the best!! Love the animals! I still have kodachrome slides too!!!! These are great! I used to have chickens way back and horses and bunny rabbits. Lauren you have really hit my heart with these ones. ;)

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  5. wonderful collection of cards and perfect for this time of year.

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