Little Buckaroo Card with Cathy

Howdy friends! Cathy here today and I’m excited to share my take on the Little Buckaroo Stamps with a Southwestern scene! I had a ton of fun creating this by combining several stamp sets that you might not think of using for a desert scene.

I started this A2 card with an Arizona desert background. I created this by drawing the mountain landscape on a 3” x 6” piece of Eclipse masking tape. There’s nothing complicated to drawing this. I just looked at photos online and drew a very simple outline. I cut along the line with scissors leaving me with a mask for the mountains and a mask for the sky as pictured below:

I cut a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" white cardstock panel, placed the sky mask at the top and inked the mountains with Rusty Hinge and Brushed Corduroy Distress inks. I then masked the mountains and punched a circle in a piece of Eclipse masking tape for the sun. I inked the sun with Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink and masked it as well before inking the sky with Scattered Straw, Ripe Persimmon, Dried Marigold and Saltwater Taffy Distress inks. I heat embossed the sentiment from the Critter Campout Stamps with black embossing powder.

Next, I cut 2 pieces of white cardstock (2 1/4" x 5 1/2" and 2 1/2" x 5 1/2") and inked them with Tea Dye and Tattered Rose Distress inks. I die-cut the top edge of each piece using dies from the Slimline Nature Border Dies.

Since I tucked some images behind the hills, I waited to adhere them to the background panel. I stamped all images on Neenah Classic Crest 80lb solar white cardstock, colored them with Copics and fussy cut them out. I used the following stamps:

Little Buckaroo Stamps

Barnyard Buddies Stamps (horse)

Critter Campout Stamps (tent, campfire)

Looking Sharp Stamps (cactus)

Alpaca Holiday Stamps (blanket on horse)

Fintastic Friends Stamps (rocks, sagebrush)

Best Fishes Stamps (sagebrush)

Ocean View Stamps (large rocks)

 

I finished by tucking some of the stamped images behind the hill pieces and adhering everything as shown. I just love how some of the ocean themed stamps helped to bring this desert scene together! I hope this inspires you to look at your stamps in new ways and maybe find the unexpected.

 

I hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by! For more inspiration, please visit my blog www.inkredibleadventures.com and you can also find me on Instagram as @cathy.chapdelaine.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Looking Sharp Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Looking Sharp Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critter Campout Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Critter Campout Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Alpaca Holiday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Alpaca Holiday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Best Fishes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Buckaroo Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Buckaroo Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fintastic Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Little Buckaroo Card with Marine

Hi crafty friends, Marine here, I'm super happy to be back on the blog with this lovely farm scene featuring Little Buckaroo. I had never colored those cute characters before so I was glad to finally get to do it!

As very often I started off by stamping those adorable cowgirl and cowboy, along with more images from other sets, on Transotype perfect coloring paper using an alcohol marker friendly black ink. I cut them using the coordinating dies, and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers + Graph'it Brush markers.

So, in addition to the Little Buckaroo images, I picked:
- the barn from Farm Fresh
- the grass sprigs from Bunnyville
- the baby chicks from Clucky Chickens
- the horse + the bale of hay from Barnyard Buddies

Next I created the background. I cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and used stencils from my stash along with oxide inks to do my landscape. At the very bottom I created a grass border using mowed lawn + rustic wilderness oxide inks. Right above it I used antique linen + vintage photo oxide inks to create some kind of a muddy/sandy section. Above it I did some mountains using rusty hinge + vintage photo oxide inks. And at the very top I did the sky using mustard seed + spiced marmalade oxide inks.

I attached all the images on my panel using 1mm + 2mm foam squares, stamped my "Greetings from the funny farm" sentiment from Barnyard Buddies in black in the top right hand corner, and finished the card by adding highlights and details to the images using a white gel pen.

And that's it! I hope that you like this cute little scene. Thank you so much for stopping by, and see you soon!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Buckaroo Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Little Buckaroo Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bunnyville Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bunnyville Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Clucky Chickens Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Barnyard Buddies Card with Catherine

Hello Crafty Friends! Catherine here! Today, I am sharing a peek-a-boo birthday card created with the adorable Barnyard Buddies Stamps!

To start, I masked off 3” from the bottom of A2 white cardstock. I ink blended the unmasked part with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide using a cloud stencil made with Fluffy Clouds Border Dies. Next, I removed the mask and I lightly ink blended the bottom of the background panel up to 1 ½” with Mowed Grass Distress Oxide. I splattered the grass with some green watercolour for interest.

To make the barn, I used the gingerbread house shadow die in Gingerbread House Dies. I die cut two shadows out of white cardstock and I trimmed one shadow for the roof (B).  To make the barn doors, I used a craft knife and cut the openings as shown in the solid lines (A). I scored the door hinges (dotted lines).

For the barn door braces (C), I trimmed white cardstock to the following sizes:
Vertical Strips: ¼” W x 2” H (total 4 pieces- 2 per door)
Horizontal Strips: ¼”W x 1 ¾”H (total 4 pieces- 2 per door)
Crosses: ¼” W x 1 ¾”H ( total 4 pieces- 2 per door)

I added a barn window with a small 7/8”W x 1” H die that I had in my stash.

Using a scoreboard, I made horizontal lines across the barn (A) for a wood effect. I then, ink blended the barn with Barn Door Distress Oxide. I adhered all the pieces of the barn together.

Next, I stamped and die cut the images from Barnyard Buddies Stamps. I added a wagon from Harvest Mice Stamps, hay from Farm Fresh Stamps, presents from Holiday Express Stamps and Cozy Christmas Stamps, and a party hat from Purrfect Birthday Stamps. I colored the images with Copic Markers listed in my blog link below.

I adhered the animals onto the background panel and then I adhered the barn onto the panel with foam tape. I adhered the wagon, presents, party hat, chick, and hay onto the barn. I finished off the card with some bunting from Balloon Rides Stamps and White Heat Embossed sentiments from Inside Greetings Birthday Stamps and Barnyard Buddies Stamps.

Thanks so much for joining me today! For a list of Copic Markers used, please feel free to visit me at Crafti-Cat. Have a wonderful week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingerbread House Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Purrfect Birthday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Purrfect Birthday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Farm Fresh Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings Birthday Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio