Faux Wood Technique

 We had another teams meeting with my stamp group and this time April taught us I believe she called it Carved wood Technique.

 You will want 3 brown inks from light to dark, sorry I forgot to write down the colors we used. We took a 4 x 5.25 inch paper and wiped the whole piece of paper with the lightest ink, you don't want to fill the whole paper just swipe down all the way across. Then we scored the top half of the card every 1/2 inch for four score lines. 

Then take an embossing folder that you would like for the bottom half of your card and  line it up with your last score line, you want this to be the debossed side of your folder. When done embossing you will swipe on your other 2 darker inks on top, once again just lightly wiping so not to fill the entire card just to leave streaks. We also added at the very end some Broken China distress inks very lightly. You will cut a 3/4 inch piece off this card for the two sections you see on the card.

For the base of the card we cut a 5.5 x 7.5 inch card and scored at 3 1/4 and 6 1/2 inches. Fold at the score lines and glue on your pieces to your card front.  Later when I was finishing the card I just added the leaf myself to keep it shut, but you don't have to have anything there.

• Taylored Expressions - Burlap embossing folder, w/distress inks
• Art Impressions - Lake House Window stamp, colored w/Aqua markers
• PPD - Stitched Square die
• Tim Holtz - Funky Foliage die

You glue the smallest scored piece directly to the card base and add the 3/4 inch strip to that, the take your main focal and glue it to that piece, it will bend back so you can secure the larger scored section.

 I hope with the instructions of how I remembered it and the pictures you will be able to figure it out if you want to give it a go :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie