Not so Scary Scarecrow
>> Friday, October 25, 2013
by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff
Happy Friday!
While I was contemplating the Christmas wreath dilemma, I made an autumn scarecrow card. For a scarecrow, he's pretty cute and I think even the crows in my back yard would like him. If he sat out there as long as my Christmas wreath did, the crows would come to know him. It's true...crows have fantastic face recognition capabilities. The crow family here knows me on sight but scatter like the wind if anyone else is out there. You'd be amazed at how smart they are and if you haven't seen the PBS documentary A Murder of Crows, I highly recommend it. (It's not scary...and I don't know why a group of crows is called a "murder" by there you go.)
I made the leaf background, using a bunch of chalk ink colors from 2 little queue stacks and the Med. Silhouette Leaf & Open Leaf. I used a texture plate on the rust bg & a bracket border dies on the olive green center panel & on the ends of the maroon horizontal panel. I also stamped the olive panel w/ a wheat stalk image using one of the gold chalk inks. I had to resize the long rectangle around the scarecrow and also do a little out of the box Nestie with him. The autumn word was fussy cut and added on top. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!
Supplies:
Stamps: DRS Designs -Medium Silhouette Leaf, Open Leaf, Long Tall Wheat, Split Scarecrow, Autumn Wording Square |
Paper: Neenah white, rust, olive, maroon |
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Colorbox chalk ink queue stacks in Pumpkin Patch & Big Top |
Accessories: Copic markers,Cheery Lynn texture plate, Spellbinders long rectangles & bracket border dies |
6 comments:
So so cute! Love all the color!
Lovely fall colors & great design, Julie!!
Julie, this is just adorable! Your coloring is just terrific and I just love the olive panel.
Sooo cute Julie! Your colors are wonderful! I love how you popped his head out of the box and added the shading on the ground too!
Soooo pretty Love the colors and the background.
What a fabulous layout and I love the multi colored leaf background! Stunning card!
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