Holy Challenge Batman!!!

Wanna find a way to really challenge this girl?  Take away her patterned paper!!!  :)  It is well known, that I have a slight obsession with patterned paper, so when I saw that the challenge for this week at Frosted Designs was Cardstock Only, I thought "how am I gonna pull this one off??!!"  And I will admit it took me a while to get headed in a direction I liked with this page.  Even the title took me forever to come up with!!  I couldn't get the song, "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" by Kenny Chesney out of my head, every time I saw the tractor in these pictures.  But I didn't think that was all too appropriate for my 5 year old!!  :)  

One of my favorite papers from Bazzill, is there Swiss Dots cardstock, so I used this pretty deep watermelon color for my background.  My LSS also got in some of the Kraft-Core and Core'dinations papers by Tim Holtz and these are amazing for embossing and distressing.  So I used a couple of different embossing folders on the Tim Holtz papers and then used one of the large emery boards to bring the color out and create my own pattern and texture on the paper.

     

I think this is a great Challenge to kick us off for the New Year and help get us out of our comfort zone!  I hope you will come play along with us this week for the chance to win an awesome prize from our sponsor, Nikki Sivils!!  :)

Products Used:  

Cardstock:  Bazzill & Tim Holts
Brads:  Bazzill
Flower Sack, Metal Pin, Stickers, Mini Market Stickers, Chipboard:  October Afternoon
Alpha Stickers:  Jillibean Soup
Emobssing:  Sizzix Big Shot & Provo Craft
Acrylic Paint:  Apple Barrel
Baker's Twine:  October Afternoon
Embroidery Floss:  Janlynn
Punch:  EK Success