Wood-grain Congrats....for Dynamic Duos #99

{guitar softly strumming in the background}

Good Saturday morning, crafty friends!

It's Black Tie week at the Dynamic Duos Two-Color Challenge:

 Dramatic colours, huh?

A couple of weeks ago my middle son had his senior recital, the final hurdle/event for his Bachelor's of Music degree. He studies Classical Guitar. The concert was awesome. And a graduation card will be needed shortly!

I've been enjoying Christine Drogt's video tutorials. She is on the Neat & Tangled design team and recently came up with this beauty: 

 That wood-grain background was done entirely with ink-pads (plus a little definition added with a marker). Amazing, eh?

So I used the challenge colours to create my wood-grain piece, then turned it into a card by CASEing some guitar images found on Pinterest (here's a link to Ruth's blog).
Here's my version:

I used real wire for the strings, which were a little difficult to stretch straight ☹. My son reminded me that the finger-board should have frets, so those were added afterwards with a gold pen. I think I would dry-emboss them next time. The guitar pick adds the "dessert option" of gold-embossing.

He thought it was a pretty cool card, and asked me to make another one as a "thank-you" to his guitar teacher.

Check out what the Dynamic Duos designers have been up to! Some pretty amazing projects over on the challenge blog.

Anne Marie Hile

Annette Elliott

Angel Johns

Cindy Brumbaugh

Holly Endress

JoAnn Burnham

Julie Gearinger

Michelle Bala

Sarah Fleming 

Tenia Nelson

 

Hope you are inspired to join us this week! The challenge runs through Thursday at noon.

 

Happy crafting,

Caroline

 

Supplies:

Cardstock: Cashmere (CTMH) and Black (Wausau Paper); Rich Razzleberry (SU)

Ink: Powdered Sugar (white pigment ink--The Stamps of Life); Vineyard Berry and Black (CTMH); Versamark; gold gel pen (Signo-Uniball).

Embossing powder: Pearlustre Champagne (Stampendous)

Gold-tone brads and wire--the stash.

Cutting dies: Large circles and Labels #2 (Nestabilities)