Country Birthday

Today is my Dad’s birthday.  I always thought he would have loved to have stayed a farmer.  When he was 18 he left the family farm to work in a city two provinces away.  At the time that was the way of progress and bettering yourself, but I know in his heart there is still a man that loved the farm and that way of life.  So this country card is for him.  I used Flourishes Country Time Christmas and stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Flourishes Classic Kraft cardstock.  Then I pulled out my Prismacolor Pencils and coloured away.  I loved creating a night sky in the background, and then matched the depth of the night sky to Flourishes Color Made Easy - True Blue card stock.  Over top of the colouring I stamped the stars from the set in White Craft ink.  I love making curvy edges with my Spellbinders A2 Curved Borderabilities.  

The sentiment is from Flourishes  - Inside and Out Just Because set.  I finished off the design with some blue seam binding, burnt rust seam binding and simple twill that I inked with some Ranger Distress inks to give it more of match to the design.  Just a simple brad finishes it off in a masculine way.  

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