Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today!
I’m making an antique John Deere tractor card for my dad’s birthday. He’s a farmer and loves all things John Deere, lol. It’s starting to get a bit challenging coming up with new tractor card designs . . .
I used the above card I found on Pinterest as my inspiration. You could obviously use an image of practically anything to recreate this design.
I found an image of an antique tractor that I liked, copied and pasted it into a word processing document, resized it and printed it on Close To My Heart White Daisy cardstock – the cardstock comes in 12×12 pieces, so I cut it down to 8 1/2 x 11.
To figure out the size, I worked backward. I got the card base, cut a piece of CTMH Topiary cardstock 1/2 inch smaller in height and width, another piece of White Daisy 1/2 inch smaller than the Topiary piece in height and width, and a final piece of Topiary 1 1/2 inches smaller than the White Daisy piece in height and width.
Now I have the dimensions I need for the tractor. EXCEPT I want to slice the tractor picture into thirds. The height of my picture is 1/2 shorter than the Topiary piece, but I need the width to be 3/4 inch less. Sounds complicated, but it wasn’t – just do One. Piece. At. A. Time.
I cut a piece of CTMH Fundaments paper 1” high and 1/2 inch narrower than the width of the White Daisy piece for a banner.
Then I cut a piece of Topiary 3/4” high and 1” narrower than the tractor layer, and a piece of White Daisy 1/2” high and 1/2” narrower than the Topiary piece – this is for the sentiment.
I used the CTMH Art Philosophy “Look Who’s . . .” stamp set and Topiary ink to stamp the sentiment. Hey, I’m getting better at stamping, just takes practice, lol.
I embossed the White Daisy piece with the Cricut cuttlebug Spots & Dots embossing folder.
Assembly:
The left picture shows the layers and the banner attached. To make a banner, cut straight into the center at the end of the piece as deep as you want the banner to go, then cut from the corner at an angle toward the center on both sides. Super easy!
The center picture has the tractor off center to the left side.
The right picture has the sentiment attached with pop dots – I didn’t take into account the front tractor tires and they’re partially covered up, ugh!!
Here’s the finished card – I think it came out great!! Pinterest is a great place to get ideas for cards, just always make sure you give credit to wherever you got it.
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As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .