Wood is Good X 2

 Hello friends as always it seems 2 weeks just fly by, I want time to slow down so I can enjoy the summer.  I managed to spend 9 days at the cottage, of course being my first trip down there were a lot of forgotten items, but Simcoe is only a 30 minute drive to pick anything up I had forgotten. There are always little things like flour, I had a plan to make some mac & cheese well can't make a roux without flour, and if you flip the breaker for the outside outlets you don't get hot water, never a dull moment when I'm in charge. I didn't accomplish much crafting, the temperature was high as was the humidity.  So on with the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, Wood is Good....create a card that includes woodgrain or wood pieces on it. I decided to turn my woodgrain into masculine cards, they seem to go together and with mostly males in the family they are always needed.

I used Stampin'up's woodgrain background stamp inked with versamark vintage sepia ink, added some cotton yarn from my knitting bag and three enamel dots (I made them a long time ago) and the perfect big birthday wishes die which I cut 3 and layered them for elevation.

I finished the inside of the card with a favourite sentiment and a couple of scraps of the woodgrain. 

Bonus time!!!

Since I am trying to get some cards ahead to donate to the troops I made an extra card.

Same woodgrain stamp, the circle with the trees is elevated, the background behind the trees is a scrap of smooshed watercolour paper, the sentient was stamped in sepia and diecut. 

Finished the inside with some off cut scraps and a leaf  and another great sentiment. 

Adding this to 

Seize the Birthday ~~ anything goes

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