Western Accordion Card

I made this for the western challenge at the SweetStamps blog.  I have to admit that I am no cowgirl, but I love the colors and textures of the western style.  Ginham, denim, leather and silver - all those cowboy textures are so fun to mix and match!

I embossed the horse silhouette on silver paper, to make it look like a concho.  The red strip with the sentiment is actually a belly band, holding the card shut - funny thing about gluing layers together, they don't want to bend very much. The gingham paper is very old, from CTMH - I love gingham, but I rarely make something that I think it suits.  I wanted a little bandanna technique to set off all the blue and brown, but I couldn't find a milky gel pen that would work, so I reversed the technique by stamping in white and highlighting in black.  I inserted a white framed panel to write on; you can see the corner of it poking out in the back.

All stamps used are from the SweetStamps store.  I love the SweetStamps collection - they are so well suited to technique stamping!