Woodsy whimsy

Some of the little details

When I first received my Klic-N-Kut for my 40th last year I loved it but was a little intimidated by it and rarely used it. Then of course I felt extremely guilty that I had an expensive piece of equipment that I seldom used other than titles (I did use it for this quite frequently)but knew there was much more to it than that. Now almost a year later I have discovered so many more uses for it in the ability to use dingbats to cut out different shapes. I'm still to scan and cut an image but now I have the confidence to play with it more that is the next step. A bus load of us crafty girls are off to Paperific in Melbourne in a few weeks time and skatkatz, were it was purchased from, have a stall there so I hope to learn more from them. I made this layout yesterday so quickly using My mind's eye papers and diecuts and the Klik-N-Kut. The little bird and tree were cut using the woodsy font, a super cute little dingbat set that has birds, trees and owls(I guess owls are birds too,lol). I painted the tree trunk using Tim Holtz's crackle paint and was happy with how much like wood grain it turned out. I would have preferred a darker shade of brown but didn't have any on hand so rubbed a bit of distress ink into the grain. Still not probably quite as dark as I would have liked but happier with it than what i was.