Don't rock the boat

     It's Trendsetter Wednesday at There She Goes so that means it's my turn to share a tip concerning one of the trends out in crafty land.  If you read my post Monday you'll know that I picked woodgrain for my trend this week.  You still have lots of time to play in our Monday Challenge with a woodgrain project.

     I'm sharing a little tutorial on how to create "wood planks".  This is the same technique I used on the doghouse mini I shared a while back.  So here we go with a technique on how to get a great woodgrain look.  Woodgrain papers are really hot right now, but you can create your own.  All you need is some strips of kraft paper and sepia or brown ink.  I cut my strips at 5/8".

    I staggered the strips so my stamping wouldn't be uniform, then just stamped from left to right leaving a small blank space in between stampings.  Excuse my dirty craft sheet.  It's WELL loved.

     Once all my strips were stamped I started to glue them down in a random pattern on a circle of card stock.

     When finished I trimmed the edges.

 I used the stamped woodgrain panel to create a background for the porthole through which you can view the two cuties in the boat from the Float My Boat set from Torico.

     I dug back in to my brad stash for the nails and found some jute also.  the stars were cut from chipboard and covered with red embossing powder with fine gold glitter in it.  I added the decorative panel to a easel card base to finish off the nautical theme card.

     Like I said, I used this same technique on the Doggie Mini Album I made using the Puppy Love set and it can be used with lots of other great There She Goes sets.  Hope you'll give it a try.

     I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Party Time Tuesday--anything goes

Cards for Men--transport

Lexi's Creations--fancy folds

Love to Create--anything goes with a sentiment

Make It Monday--anything goes

Paper Playtime--use some brown

The Paper Girls--wood elements

PanPastelUK--seeing stars

Allsorts--masculine

Fussy and Fancy--circles

     Have a fabulous day!