The whole herd

Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Tie It Up (use twine, ribbon, etc.)

Here is my card for your inspiration:

This card was made from a bunch of bits and pieces that were left over from other projects.  While I was making Valentine's Day cards, the pieces were sitting on my desk and a sketch design really sparked a creative thought on how to use them all up together.  The white piece with the embossed horses was left over from a commercial Christmas card that I had cut apart to use other pieces of on a different card and thought this piece was too fun to throw away.  The top silver star border is actually two small pieces that were just long enough to hide behind the main panel.  I did have to die cut a second border to go along the bottom.  The two gray pieces are actually ribbon and I only had to trim off a bit from each piece to make them the correct length for the card (I don't know why I had two pieces cut from the same ribbon?)  And last but not least, the two silver "charms" and the tiny bit of twine were also in the bits and pieces stash.  And the three silver stars were the stars left behind when the border was cut out.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: My Favorite Things "The Whole Herd"

Dies: unbranded label die from Amazon; My Favorite Things star border and Western charms (both are OLD sets no longer available)

Challenges:

CRAFT Rocket #122--Happy Birthday

Pretty Papers--red

Cupcake Inspiration #611--red, black and white

Fab n' Funky #610--stitching, real or faux (stitching on my die cut)

Sweet Stampin'--masculine makes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #248--anything goes

Snippets Playground #500--Celebration with snippets 

Cardz 4 Guyz #366--sketch (took a little liberty with it, but I think the basics are still there)

Double D--the color red