Guest Designer for WAW

I was thrilled with Karen ask me to guest design for the month of April over at Word Art Wednesday. I've been linking up to this fun "Anything Goes" challenge for a long time, and I use their free word art files quite often in my card-making.

To create the chalkboard type text I:

• layered my free wordart verse onto a white background in Photoscape X
• inverted the colors so the text was white and the background black - saved as a new file
• inserted my new wordart into Open Office and adjusted the size
• clicked the picture so that the color properties could be adjusted
• added red and green till I got the shade of brown I wanted

I find that using designer paper from all one paper stack makes cards like this fun and easy to create!  I hope my card will inspire you to check out Karen's blog and link up your own lovely creations!

Supplies and Tools:

Dies/Punches - Hello Doily Dies (Sizzix), Lg. Square Punch, Sm. Circle Punch, Scallop 3-Dot Border Punch (Martha Stewart), Cherry Blossom Double Edge Punch (Martha Stewart)

Embellishments: Buttons, Burlap String, Rhinestones

This post linked to:
Cardz TV - Anything Goes
Stamplorations - Focus on the Sentiment