OSAT Boys In The Hood Blog Hop

Good Morning! It has a been awhile! First thing is first... let me explain my absence a bit. On May 16th, after spending the day going to church and doing some barn chores and making a third pen, Troy and I sat down to his phone ringing. His dad had amazing timing, although this time it was his wife and that is never good. Troy's dad had passed away in his wheel chair peacefully in his garage. If you KNOW me, you will know that he has been fighting something for sometime. If it wasn't his heart it was his skin cancer and if it wasn't that, it was his breathing and oxygen levels. My goal over the last few weeks is trying to keep my kids busy and help them through this grieving process. Throw in a few pig shows, a birthday and summer school, that has been my life!  Enough about that!

This month the One Stamp At A Time team is hopping with a masculine theme that we decided to label Boys In The Hood. Sometimes masculine is for boys and not men, which was my goal when Sara Levin and I created this theme! I chose to use the retiring Well Suited DSP and Ride The Range Bundle for todays designs! Let me show you what I have created!

Now, I wish I could take all the credit for this amazing fold but I can't! I stumbled on this great tutorial from fellow demonstrator Lyssa Zwolanek. It was great way for me to use up some retiring DSP! You can find the the dimensions for the card base here. You will need some 12 x 12 card stock. I chose to use Night of Navy and Smoky Slate. The belly band is Smoky Slate. I carefully chose each pattern so that it didn't clash or look to busy. On the Basic White Panel I stamped the barbwire from the Ride The Range bundle with Basic Gray ink and added a bit of the Well Suited and Essential Bakers Twine in a knot. The sentiments are stamped in Night of Navy. The horse shoes that accent the front are heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder on a Smoky Slate card stock, I added a bit of Basic Gray ink before die cutting them with the coordinating die. I just love the Tailor Made Tags dies and it was perfect for the birthday sentiment on the front! A quick tag was the perfect complimentary item for this fancy fold! 

I can't wait for you to see what all of my friends have made! You can click along the link list below for some more masculine inspiration!

Product List

Well Suited 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [154562]	Neutrals 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock [147003]	Ride The Range Bundle [156243]	Tailor Made Tags Dies [155563]	Simply Scored [122334]
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110]	Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad [149165]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131]	Delightful Tag Topper Punch [149518]
Well Suited Twine Combo Pack [154566]	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475]

Creation Station Out West Blog Hop

Good Morning! This last week has been such a doozy. The good news is that it is OVER and today starts a brand new week! The kids have a 4 day school week with no school on Friday, not sure if I am excited about spring break or if I should go into this all cautiously. A year ago tomorrow, Joshua kicked off his spring break early with his appendectomy and then our whole world fell apart with COVID. We plan on having some fun this break though with plans to go to an indoor water park and some pig shopping! I can't wait for our barn to be full of pigs again! We claimed one last night for Josh from our friends, 1 down 5 my more pigs to go!

Today I am back in the swing of things with the Creation Station Design Team Blog Hop. I may have had some doing with regards to our Outwest/Outback Theme. It is an esthetic that is very much our families lifestyle. We have horses, 4H animals and love our agricultural friends! I chose to ink up the Ride The Range Bundle, I know it is on backorder BUT that doesn't mean you can't order it and make sure you stake your claim! Let me show you what I rounded up for you!

So this card started with a piece of Cinnamon Cider card stock piece that I decided to emboss with the Parisian Flourish Embossing Folder. You see, I had this epiphany about using our Blending Brushes and making a piece of what I thought would look like tooled leather. Like a saddle or even a belt. I used Soft Suede and Early Espresso with our Blending Brushes. The sponge daubers were perfect to get the raised details a bit darker. Next, I stamped the barbed wire on a label from the Tasteful Labels dies with Early Espresso Ink and layered it over a piece of our Misty Moonlight In Color DSP. The fence was die cut from a piece of Crumb Cake and a wood scrap from the In Good Taste DSP and adhered together so that it has dimension. My windmill is also cut twice and adhered together this time using some Soft Suede and added a bit of sparkle with the some Wink Of Stella. The sentiment stamped onto the Basic White Label from the Tasteful Labels Dies is stamped in Misty Moonlight to coordinate with the Blender Pen colored jeans that I colored on the cowboy. Once I had all of my layers arranged and adhered with Stampin' Seal and Stampin' Dimensionals, I added a a few Star Designer Elements. A mat of Misty Moonlight and Crumb Cake card base had me hollering "YEE-HAW" when this card was done!

I can't wait for you to see what Kathy has created for this hop! You can get to her by clicking the next button below! 

Have an amazing Sunday!

Kathy Kartak