Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A Cowboy Card for Dad

My card today meets 2 challenges. First up is Oozak's first challenge of "anything goes". There is also a challenge over on the OWH Stars & Stamps blog this month to make a card for the ODBD April challenge to use an animal on your card. OWH is also asking for masculine cards so I made this one for Dad. I'm sure there are a lot of dads out there who will enjoy this cowboy image. The image is by Inkadinkado and I colored all 3 with Copics and matted them with scraps of gold cardstock. The background is cherry cobbler, and the star border at the top was done with a SNSS die, cut in turquoise and gold, with the stars swapped out for a little color interest. The sentiment is a stamp from MFP, done with word window and fancy label punches, and another little black star added just for fun.  I added some paper piercing to the black panel which you can probably see better if you click the photo to enlarge it. I don't know why I used this color combination, it just seemed to work as I was creating.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!


Carol


Copics used: YR30, YR31, YR18, YR15, YR12, R46, 100

15 comments:

LeAnne said...

Awesome! Those stars and the embossing are wonderful, as is that image! Of course, I love things in threes!

jimlynn said...

It's a GREAT color combo! Very striking and pretty - great masculine card! Love that image too.
Lynn

Shannon White said...

Oh This is Fabulous Miss Carol! Love the fun image and Terrific color combo! Cheery and masculine all at the same time! your border and paper piercing is just Terrific too! Your Dad is going to Love this! 8-)

Hugs
Shannon

Donna Hanley said...

Carol, Love it. What a wonderful Dad card. I love the piercing and your coloring. Those color do go great together. Hope you are doing well. Talk Soon.

Benzi said...

This is a 'wow' card, Carol. What a spectacular, masculine creation. Great colors and I really like those stars. This is a really special 'Dad' card.

Denise Marzec said...

Very cool!

Susan (rainy) said...

Fabulous card, Carol. I LOVE what you did with the border and "swapping" it out with the yellow stars. Very cool!

Jennipher said...

Really fabulous masculine card. Love those colors together.

JD/ Jill said...

Great masculine card. Great colors!

Wendy said...

Awesome masculine card! Love that image! :)

nwilliams6 said...

Now this is what I am talking about! Wow or Yippie or some other fun western saying. I totally love this and so would my DH. Reminds me of the WWW man - I need to go dig him out of the stamp chest. Fun card! Hugz.

anaRy said...

Really interesting layout..the silhouette is just cool!
Thank you so much for sharing with us over Oozak's challenge blog!
huggies
anaRy

Cindy's Card Co said...

Very cool card.

Linda said...

Love how the accents really play off the images! Great card! TFS!!!

Joanne (jojot) said...

sometimes the creative process takes you to places and colors out of your comfort zone....but often...like here....that is a GREAT thing