So...two men walk into a bar....

...It figures! At least a woman would know well enough to DUCK!

HA!!!! It's Monday morning, what more do you want from me? LOL!

The first October Challenge is up over at Use Your Stash!

This was a fun challenge. You need to base your layout around the letters O,C, and T. (Get it..October...yeah.......)



So, I figured a Cowboy was JUST what I needed for that letter C portion! LOL!
I also incorporated both Close To My Heart and Cosmo Cricket products to get LOTS of 'C's' in there! For the 'O' I used an Old Encyclopedia page along with some Orange, and for the 'T' portion I used trims, tags, twine, and Tim Holtz inks!!! TONS of fun!


I loved that I had a page from the Cowboy description in the old encyclopedia! It couldn't have worked better!!!



I did some shadow stamping (also called two-step stamping) with varying intensities of the same ink colors to give a nice western feel to the page.



I love how the wooden buttons worked so well with the overall theme.



To create the leather title tag I worked a leather tag in my hand for a bit to soften it up and create creases and wear it down a bit. Then I inked it with three different colors of distress ink to make it coordinate perfectly with the layout and stamped the title with the darkest ink color. The stamps are from Pink Persimmon!!! I love them!!!

So let me know what you think! If you would like to participate head on over to Use Your Stash and check out what the rest of the Design Team created!

Are you doing anything fun this week?