Sketch #114

This card is for the Stars and Stamps Blog sketch challenge as well as the masculine card challenge. It's also part of my homework for the Creative Chemistry 101. I used distress stain and ink on the square of Kraft Resist paper before stamping the bird.

Since we're making Fathers' Day cards for Operation Write Home, I thought I'd include one of my dad's mini bales of cotton in the picture. That's a 5 ounce replica of a 500 pound cotton bale. He loved making them and giving them away. He ginned the cotton by hand and put it in a press he crafted. He was a clever man.

Idea-ology- "Paper Stash Kraft Resist" and "Paper Stack Lost and Found"

Ranger- Distress Inks, Distress Stains, Archival Ink (Jet Black)

Paper Inspirations "Happy Father's Day" sentiment

Creative Chemistry, Day 2

Boy, is this class out of my comfort zone! Creative Chemistry is all about techniques, and I need to figure out how to use the techniques on a card. I'm a card maker after all.