I made this card with images that I received from the The Wax Fruit Company. I started with the image of the chickens and the wheelbarrow. I am really not into the coloring thing, but I figured I've give it a try. When I had colored it with markers and colored pencils, I set it aside unsure of what I was going to do with it. Then I came across a sketch at Pals Paper Arts. I immediately thought about the barn. So I hand cut a barn from red cardstock, added the trim cut from white cardstock and a black cardstock roof. I then separated the barn into four sections and adhered it to a white cardbase that I had chalked in with clouds and dirt. In the upper part of the barn I adhered raffia to make it look like the loft had straw. I also used paper tearing to create the fences and added highlight and detail with colored pencils (sorry, you can't see this in the photo)and finished with my hand cut letters: Ee-I-Ee-I-O. The funny thing is that I had just finished my card when my son walked in. He looked at the card and said it reminded him of the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow". When I said I didn't know it, he googled it. It goes like this:The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
I wish my son had come by before I had adhered the letters, because I think the poem would be awesome inside.....oh well, maybe on another card.
