A MANLY CARD

Hi and welcome to my blog. I am Susan S. and I am sharing another piece with you I am making for my stores and a challenge with http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/

the theme is make it manly.so here are my steps
1. I stained with Distress stain peeled paint.three times.

2. I rubbed on Distress antique linen

3. I added a heavy rub on of Distress Salty Ocean

4.This is what it looks like at this point

5. i sprayed on Dylusions Lemon Zest

6. I sprayed on Ranger Perfect Pearls mist

7. i "ghosted" in distress picket fence

8. I dabbed colorbox razzberry in various places

at this point this is what it looks like

9. I covered the card stamped with "post card" from tim holtz collection with staz on jet black

this is what it looked like at this point

10. I used staz on jet black and Tim Holtz pine trees and covered the card at this point

11. This is what it looked like at this point

12 I used my brick stencil from studio 490 Wendy Vecchi and Ranger white dabber

12 I am cutting Tim Holtz die cuts "gears"in half

 I have picked a dark red acrylic this time..I want the Colorado look for the people from there you would know what I mean..I grew up in that area a lot of bold red there...

13.Here are the gears now for the man

yes I picked my stamp from Stampers Anonymous a gift from stampers.

14 the sentiment "dream a little dream"

15.  add the ideologies when you make Tim Holtz! I did not have a lot to use uumm must improvise

There it is finished some cutting of my awesome steampunk paper from michaels a backing and I am finished.
thanks for looking
susan s