Here’s my card for the fifth challenge in Operation Write Home’s Labor Day Virtual Card Making Party.  This one really was a challenge for me!  The idea was to create a card with a western theme featuring a cowboy or a horse.  I have no cowboy (or cowgirl) images, but I eventually remembered I have a cute rocking horse stamp in one of my Lawn Fawn sets.  I did have one package of designer papers with a western look to them.  So I pulled the papers and horse image together and came up with this card.  The current Lawnscaping challenge is a sketch challenge, and I used the mirror image of it for the layout of my card.  If I’d stayed with the original sketch, the horse would be “looking off the edge” of the card.  The way the horse image is drawn, I think using the mirror image of the layout makes the card more pleasing to the eye. The scalloped edges and kid-friendly design make this card qualify for the current OWH Midweek Throwdown challenge, too.

I was so pleased with out it turned out, I wanted to go ahead and get it photographed and blogged right away!  Now I need to go back and put a white liner inside of it.  Our heroes stationed overseas sometimes have only a pencil to write with, and pencil doesn’t always show up well against dark colors.  So cards with darker bases need to be lined with a light paper or cardstock before they are sent to Operation Write Home.

Supplies:
Stamps: Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Blue Bayou, Whisper White, Western Sky designer papers (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: linen thread (SU); markers (Copic); Stars Scallop die (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps); standard circle and petite scalloped circle Nestabilities dies (Spellbinders)