May 05 2008
Woodgrain Adirondack
Happy Cinco de Mayo!!! 
I worked on several designs yesterday, and was so pleased with this one! This card is for my Uncle’s birthday. Masculine designs can be so difficult sometimes, but this one came together rather quickly.
I haven’t made a matchbook card in *ages* it seems! They are so easy, and the recipient almost always thinks it’s a “wow”. I stamped the CHF woodgrain backgrounder on kraft cardstock using Adirondack mushroom ink. I re-inked a portion of the woodgrain and stamped it horizontally on the bottom flap, then stamped it again without reinking to give it a teeny bit of dimension.
The focal image, Lockhart’s adirondack chair, is on shimmery cryogen white cardstock, and colored with my Copic markers. I cut and embossed it with my square Spellbinders Nestability die, then I masked the chair, and airbrushed the sky with B21. I colored the rest of the image with: E31, 55, 57, 99, R59, G99, YG17.
Rather than going with the customary scalloped matting, I chose to keep the lines straight on this. I selected a larger embossed square from Prism birchtone dark cardstock, and added the tiny tab for the sentiment, using SU! everyday flexible phrases. I added 3 Karen Foster thumbtack brads to the bottom flap, then adhered that together with a strip of redliner tape, because I didn’t want to have the brad prongs showing through the back of the card.
Here’s how the card opens:
Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great Cinco de Mayo, and join me with a burrito and margarita! ![]()





























