Fun challenge! I love making my own backgrounds. For this, I made two different ones.
The only golf I've ever played is miniature, but there are a lot of golfers in my family. So I think this would be the perfect masculine birthday card for one of them. All except my aunt Mary, that it is, lol. She LOVES to play golf. You could use it for other occasions, but I used a birthday greeting on the inside.
This golfer reminds me a little of my husband. A long time ago, in a city far, far way, we lived in a partially finished subdivision & he was out in front practicing his swing. He used to hit balls across the several unfinished streets and pay neighbor kids to shag the balls. So he's out there one day and my daughter and I are on the couch in the living room. All of a sudden, there is a big CRASH, my glasses fly off my face and this golf ball lands about 3 inches in front of the tv. I wish I had a picture of the look on his face. When he shanked that ball, it hit the curb across the street & bounced back thru the front window of our house. I guess if he had hit it any harder, he'd have hit two birds w/ one ball. Me & the tv, lol.
For my self made backgrounds, I used a little stack of pigment inks in coordinating colors to stamp the Golf word repeatedly. I also used it to make the narrow woven plaid strip. Golfer Duff was colored with markers and given a little out of the box treatment.The finished card is 4.25 x 5.5.
Thanks so much for looking! It's on my blog: The Write Stuff
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Fri, Oct 07, 2011 @ 9:40 AM
You did a fabulous job with your *dp, Julie....the plaid looks awesome and I love the golf design!!! Your story is just tooo funny....maybe a trip to the driving range would be a little cheaper than replacing a window...LOL!!!