Wee Cowboy and Circle Piercing with the Scor-Bug

Hello! Today, I combined Out West with Melanie's Wee Tee's set to create a card for the young cowboy in your life. If you look closely, you can see a pierced circle behind the vest/tee. I did that using my new Scor bug tool! I'll explain how below.

To start, I sponged Creamy Caramel and Chocolate Chip ink on white leather cardstock from the Paper Temptress. I really love this leather cardstock. It takes ink very well, which really enhances the texture of the paper. You can click on any of the photos for a better view of the texture.

Next, I inked up just a portion of the Wee Tee, as you can see in the photo, and stamped it on my paper.

After I stamped the image, I used my black Memento marker to add some vest lines. I also stamped the cowboy hat from Out West on the leather paper. Then I cut out the vest pieces and hat.

Stamped the image again, this time on Pure Luxury White cardstock and colored it with Copic Markers, B24 and B26.

Then I adhered the vest pieces to the tee and added a little gold start using my Sakura gold gel pen. I sponged the background with a bit of So Saffron and added the circle piercing using my Scor-bug, then stamped the horseshoe a few times.

The site panel is another piece of the sponged leather paper that I added eyelets to and wove twine through.

So, I have to tell you I am in love with my new Scor-bug. I love to pierce and this tool makes it so quick and easy. You just place your cardstock in your Scor-pal and run your bug in the grooves. Makes perfect piercing lines every time, but I have been wanting to do round piercing, so I pulled out my Spellbinders Tan Mat, used for embossing with Nestabilities.

I placed the cardstock on the tan mat and used my old Creative Memories circle and oval cutters as guides and just ran the Scor-bug around the outside. It worked very well except when I tried really small curves.

If you try this, I recommend practicing on scrap paper several times, until you get the hang of it. If you don't have circle templates, the lid off a jar of peanut butter would work. It just needs to be something with a slight raised edge. I tried using my Nestabilites as guides and that was tough because they are so flat, so look for something about 1/4 to 3/4 inch high.

I also practiced making free handed wavy lines and that worked great, too!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a great Saturday!