You're awesome, deer

 Happy Tuesday!  Today is the day I get to wish my awesome husband happy birthday... another trip around the sun!  I kept this card as simple & masculine as I could, while using some fun products.  Hope you enjoy!


I knew I wanted to use the Darling Deer dies for this masculine card, and I selected two from the set that would fit well together on a mini slimline card (this one is 6.5x3.5").  I recently got the Storyteller 6x8 pad by Vicki Boutin, and I thought this would be a fun project for it- I learned that I am *very* out of practice with using patterned paper!

After cutting both the deer and the awesome sentiment from Kraft Cardstock, I played around with my layout on a 3x6 layer of the patterned paper I selected.  The stripes on this piece I selected were a fun way to highlight the sentiment and give a design element without extra layers.  I stamped the rest of the sentiment before adhering the die cut word & the deer in place.

I found the top left corner needed a little something more, so I pulled out the text stencil, also from the Storyteller line, and added some subtle brown inking through it.  It's no mistake that I chose the part that says 'wild soul' :)


I tried several colors of card base before I settled on this teal color- it wasn't quite right until I added a bit more brown Distress to soften it.  I also tied the layers together by stamping some Sketch Greenery branches in a dark blue (the same Versafine Clair Twilight ink I used for the stamped portion of the sentiment) around the edges.

All of this to tell my "deer" hubby how awesome I hope his birthday is!

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

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