Happy day on the farm

I was eyeing the SU set “On the farm” for a couple of years but decided to let it retire thinking I didnt need the farmer, or the barn……all I needed were the animals. Then when they announced the wheel, “farmyard” was retiring then I knew I had to snatch it. Here it is used for yet another Beate’s sketch challenge #13:

Might I add that I really like the “muddiness” of this card, the browns, the mustard and all the sponging. It’s like a happy pig in the mud!

Instructions:

1. Starting with a piece of close to cocoa cut at 5 1/2 x 81/2 and scored at 5 1/2 and 8 1/8. I sponged the edges with close to cocoa ink and then made a criss cross pattern around the edge in chocolate chip. (You could use the stamp from “all in a row” but I dont have it, so I did it by hand)
2. Then I wheeled the farmyard wheel in black on white cs and colored it with blender pens and watercolor wonder crayons. For the sky I used the aquapainter, cover more area and make it more wet and less dense color.
3. Next I cut a 2 x 3 1/2 piece of white paper and stamped the happy sentiment from ‘polka dots and paisley’ set in chocolate chip. I then sponged the edge in more mustard and then again in close to cocoa.
4. I layered the white on top of a 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 piece of real red, then on a piece of 2 1/2 x 4 more mustard and adhered all the layers to the small side of the card with a stampin dimensional.
5. Then punched a hole on either end of the card flap and ran 3 pieces of ribbon through and tied and then trimmed the edges.
6. I cut a piece of more mustard at 5 1/4x 3, then I cut a piece of real red at 5 x 2 3/4 and glued them together.
7. Next I cut my image of the farmyard to approximately where I would want the main animals to be on the card. And then I trimed it down to 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 and glued that to the other layers.
8. Finally I attached the image to the bottom using stampin dimensionals.

And there you have another quick and easy card. I really like using the blender pens for coloring with the watercolor crayons vs. the aqua painters. But more than that, I like using the prismacolor pencils and gamasol, but alas the wheel ink was not waterproof and I didnt want to blend away my lines.

I hope you enjoy this fun little card, and my fantasy of the perfect farm; happy animals that never get eaten!

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