Linda Vich Creates: Last Minute In The Woods Buffalo Check Birthday

The last couple of weeks I have been tied up with a family project and have not had a chance to craft! However, my brother's birthday was arriving shortly and I had only about 30 minutes in which to create a card for him! Needless to say, this is NOT my best work but still a simple and fun card to make!

I started with my new favorite, the Buffalo Check background stamp. Using the Stamparatus, I inked the stamp with Shaded Spruce and stamped on a piece of Bermuda Bay. To get a very clear print, I stamped 2X.

Next, I took a ruler and my Blueberry Bushel Stampin' Write Marker and drew lines in the middle of the clear sections, both vertically and horizontally.

To draw the lines, I used the brush tip of the markers. I placed the stamped matte on a piece of scrap paper and made sure to start my lines off the paper so that I could start and maintain an even pressure on the marker all the way across the line.

I trimmed the stamped matte, reserving a strip of the plaid. After this, I used the now retired Distress Tool to distress the edges before gluing it to a Blueberry Bushel matte. I tied a length of the Braided Linen Trim around the matte, fraying the ends.

A standard card front was cut and then I used the Woodland Embossing Folder to emboss the front of it to add further interest to the card front. The stamped matte was adhered to the card front using Dimensionals.

I used the In The Woods Framelits to die cut the two trees from Shaded Spruce. After popping up the little branches of the smaller one, I used a Sponge Dauber to apply a little Frost White Shimmer Paint to the edges. The tree was then glued to the larger tree and then adhered to the card front using Dimensionals.

The sentiment, from the Hand Delivered stamp set, was stamped with Memento ink on a strip of Blueberry Bushel and flagged at one end using scissors. It was glued to the card front.

For inside the card, I glued the plaid strip I had saved from my stamped matte onto the bottom of a matte of Thick Whisper White before adhering it inside the card.