The Camouflage Truck

In my last post, You Make Me Happy, I hand drew and cut the word "make" in the shape of a heart.  A friend gave me the idea afterwards to do the same thing with other shapes (specifically more manly shapes, like guns and trucks), so I decided to give it a go!  (Making these is quite fun.  It's not like I had to be begged.)
Day before yesterday, my fathah and little broham left for camp, and I completely forgot until yesterday morning (when I saw a letter from my sister to my little broham) that we're suppose to write them letters!  So really quickly I whipped up a couple of letters, and then, since the theme this year is camouflage, I thought it would be fun to add in a sticker with the word "camouflage" in the shape of a truck!  Welp, it all went swimmingly until I tried to run it through the sticker maker.  This was the first sticker I'd tried with that cartridge, and I must have messed it up somehow.  I'm telling you, I about died of frustration.  I ended up not even putting it in the letter at all, because I'm still set on making it a sticker, and I had to get it in the mail in a very speedy manner!  It might be a while until I touch that thing (sticker maker).  I have to let myself cool down, you know, so I don't chomp it into little pieces in my rage.  That wouldn't be good....
I'll give it to him someday.

 So ANYWAYS, I roughly drew a simple truck shape, and then roughly filled in the letters, and tweaked them until I thought they looked good.  Each letter has to touch the letters on either side of it so the word will all be one piece when cut out.

 Then I cut the whole thing out!  I love this part.  After that I had to erase the pencil lines, which wasn't hard, but I did have to make sure I was gentle so the paper didn't get bent.

Then came the camouflaging!  I used five different sharpies, being: brown, tan (more like light brown), green, black, and gray.

Let me know what y'all think!  In other words, comment!  I love feedback!  What other shapes/words could I do?

You Make Me Happy

I wasn't planning to take pictures in the beginning (which is why I don't have pictures of the beginning), but I just couldn't resist doing a post on this card with that title!  I wish I could send this to so many people.

I use that embossing folder more than any other.  It's so versatile.  The paper is 3 3/4 by 5 inches.

THIS makes me happy!  "You" and "happy" were die cut, and I hand drew and cut "MAKE" and "ME."  I especially love that "MAKE"!

With a thick purple sharpie, color in all of the word pieces.

I LOVE PURPLE.

With a coordinating color, trace a triangle, as shown, in the corner.

Then fill in as desired.  I desired to do a cross-hatch pattern.  You don't need to fill in the middle part, because that will be covered up.  Not that it's much more work to do it.  For serious!

Position embossed piece on card.

Swoon with me!  No, this is not a swooney sort of card.  Squeal with me!