Late this past Saturday night my husband had a special request for a Christmas card for his boss. His boss loves John Deere tractors and they use them daily for work, he has a collection of antique JD tractors and he also restores them. Of course my creative brain went into overdrive. A masculine card, with a tractor and Christmas themed....uh boy - I have my work cut out for me! Gulp!
Thankfully, High Hopes Rubber Stamps has two tractors in their stamp line up - now I just had to wait for him to choose which one he wanted me to use. Oh and did I mention he wants to give it to him at his Christmas party next Saturday? Hubby chose the antique style tractor and this is the card I came up with. Here's hoping the boss likes it!
I did some creative masking (the stamp comes with flowers by the wheels) and stamped the tractor on alcohol marker friendly paper. After I hand drew a few of the lines to complete the wheels, I coloured the stamp with Copic alcohol markers and hand fussy cut it. I followed the same process with the Farm Background stamp as I didn't want the whole scene in the stamp.
Once the colouring and fussy cutting was done, I die cut some snow banks using a hills die and layered them on my card base. Paper from Recollections was perfect for a snowy sky background behind the farm. Patterned paper from Memory Box was perfect for the 5.5" x 5.5" card base.
I added some twine under the scene, stamped the sentiment and added it to the card. Before adding the sentiment, I watered down some white paint and splattered it on the scene to create a "it's snowing" effect. Enamel dots finish off my card.
Card Recipe
Stamp - Tractor (T067), Farm Background (R106) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps
Sentiment - Merry Wishes (FLL009)
Patterned Paper - Woodsy Plaid - Memory Box, Say Freeze - Recollections
Hammermill digital cover stock, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, hills dies - Whimsy Stamps, Your Next Stamp, twine, enamel dots, white acrylic paint
Copic List
Smoke Stacks/Tires - T2 T4 T6 T8 Y11 Y15 Y18 Y26
Tractor - G14 G09 G28
Seat - G14 G09 G28 T2 T4 T6 T8
Silo - T2 T4 T6 T8
Trees - E34 E35 E29 YG61 YG63 YG67 YG17 YG67 G29
Fence - E23 E25 E27
Barn - R24 R27 R28 R59 T1 T4 T6 T8
Thanks for popping by! Have a great day!
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