Lumber tree card for my Father on Father’s day

Hello and welcome, 

Today I will share a card I have made for my Dear Father on Father’s day on Sunday. 

I have used Tim Holtz new CMS476 Winter woodlands stamps for his card this year. I think it is very suitable because when my Father was a young boy, he planted trees as work.

I started with the background, a piece of Watercolor cardstock. Then I inked my craft at with Pumice stone Distress ink and Oxide, spritzed with water and then dipped the paper. Heated with my heat tool and then dipped again until satisfied.

Then I inked up the tree stamp with different green Distress Oxides, and then used clear embossing powder. Heated the powder with my embossing gun.

Then I stamped the big stamp with all the trees, branches etc with Ground espresso Archival ink over the tree and on to the background. The clear embossing powder works as a resist, so I did not need to mask the tree. 

I inked the edges with Ground espresso DI and then stitched around with my sewing machine. Spritzed some raw umber acrylic paint on the background. Heated to dry. 

Then I ironed off the clear embossing powder. A technique learned from Tami B. (One of Tim’s makers).

I stamped the “All kinds of lumber” text with Rustic wilderness DOX, then clear embossing powder. Heated with embossing gun.

I used a paperdoll which I colored with some Distress crayons. I used a ”glow pen” and burned  in my Father’s initials on a Ideology Wood slice, and ”fastened” to the card with a Vignette hardware nail.

For the next layer I used Tim’s 3D embossing folder, Lumber on a piece of Mixed media heavystock. Inked the folder with Ground espresso Archival ink, then sprayed a little mist of water and ran through my Big shot machine. Then I used the Ground espresso DOX ink pad and inked the whole piece. Spritzed with some water, then heated. I repeated the last step but with Distress ink Ground espresso instead of Oxide. Inked the edges with Ground espresso DI. 

I cut a piece from that panel and used behind the “North lumber….” stamp. The “North lumber …” is stamped with Rustic wilderness DI on a Pumice  stone inked piece of Watercolor cardstock. Inked the edges with Ground espresso DI. I used Hex fasteners to adhere the panel. I also used a bigger Hex fastener in the top right corner. 

Under the wood panel I cut a piece of green cardstock which I inked the edges on with Ground espresso DI. I used 3D foam between the layers for dimension. 

I glued the panels to a black card blank. 

I will try this card over at Simon says stamp Monday challenge - Grunge it up.

Thank you for visiting today, 

/Susanne