Lets go Rustic Style for May with Lets Craft Together

Welcome back to another Let's Craft Together Blog Hop! This months theme is Rustic, I was super excited for this month, I think its such a cool theme.

I have created a rustic pile of 'painted wood' ready for any DIY'er to create something super cool.

For todays sentiment I double stanped in 2 colours the 'HappyBirthday' from Sweetly Scripted.

Remember the challenge was RUSTIC

Lets take a closer look at this card. Here I had already 'treated' my wood panels to some shading around the edges with Crumb Cake ink and a small blending brush. The next steps was the fun part, I wanted to use the inkpad 'SWIPE' technique to add some white ink, like a white wash of paint.  So I used a small inkspot with a tiny bit of white ink refill.

You can see here more clearly the end result of darking the edges and then lightening the fronts. I think it looks sooo RUSTIC!

My RUSTIC inspiration - I would love this coffee table

Time to finish the card with a sentiment and some tone on tone gems

For the inside I used a few 'offcuts' along the bottom edge. 

A darker pallet than I would normally for go and I love the end result.

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