Loving Thoughts of You

Good morning everyone....can you believe that February is almost over??? Where does the time go??? We had quite a rain this last weekend...we got over 3 inches on our farm outside of town!!! We have two rather large ponds that filled up quite a bit and two very muddy horses who love to roll around on the ground in the soft mud!!

This picture was taken before the rain...you can see how low the back pond is in the background. Now it's up about a foot or so. We had our yard in town mowed a couple of days ago and they bagged the grass so George could take it to the animals. He spread one of the bags in the chicken run and the girls went nuts...they pecked, scratched, and cackled  for hours!!! Animals are soo much fun to watch!!

Anyway...maybe I should tell ya a little about my card. I made this yesterday for the TLC challenge on Splitcoast. Holly challenged us to do acrylic distressing. The instructions can be found here in the SCS Resource section.
It's really easy...just emboss a piece of cardstock with an embossing folder, paint the whole thing with acrylic paint, sand the raised areas and then rub ink on the sanded areas. I actually had a juniper colored Adirondack Acrylic Paint dabber sitting on my counter...that's what I used to paint my background layer after I ran it through the Cuttlebug with a bird and branch folder!! The distressing was done with Papertrey Kraft ink and sponging on the Cat's Meow image was done with Sage Shadow. The papers are from Bo Bunny's Gabrielle dp and flowers and twine finish it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: Cat's Meow Sent With Love
Paper: Kraft, Vanilla, Bo Bunny Gabrielle dp
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Sage Shadow, PTI Kraft
Accessories: Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber, MFT's Ric Rac die, Sewing Machine, Twine, Primas, Nestabilities

Thanks for stopping by...have a great day!!!