Hello again and welcome to another limelight project! If you’re like me, you’ve been excited to see new products appearing on the market following the recent CHA show in California. One of the trends I’m noticing with new patterned papers is the look of weathered wood. I want to share a fun way to create this look very simply and quickly with supplies you already have on hand!
For my first card, I used a vanilla cardstock base and scored at one inch intervals (I like to start at the half inch mark). Using a direct to paper technique, I made long vertical swipes of brown dye ink then added very light touches of an avocado shade of pigment ink to create a distressed, aged wood look. I used a distressing tool for the edges and sponged more brown ink to continue with the distressed look.
Above right is another background I created using vanilla cardstock, gray dye ink & brick red pigment
ink. As you can see, there are endless combinations you can create! For my second card below, I used kraft cardstock for the base and added white pigment ink with a touch of oasis green chalk ink.
The sentiment is from Flourishes’ Petals & Peace set…typically a set for Christmas and winter-themed cards, but love that it’s versatile enough for a Valentine card as well! I’m thinking this will work for my DH’s Valentine this year! 
Thanks for stopping by…hope you’ve been inspired to try this weathered wood look! I look forward to bringing you another project next Sunday!
Both are very pretty….a fun “do it yourself” trend!!
Great inspiration – I love both your cards. Thanks Wanda!
Great way to make wood, thanks for sharing.
What a great idea! It looks so real, like the striations were from an embossing plate. I can’t wait to see what you have next week
What a wonderful look and tutorial. I can’t wait to try this out!
great tutorial Wanda, love the look of this technique..thanks for sharing..
Wow, wow, wow! This is amazing & I will give it a try. Your cards are wonderful. I should have looked at your Snow Wonderful card before I made mine–boy do your birds look fabulous!
Wanda, these are WONDERFUL! GREAT technique with the woodgrain!
Wanda,
This is a wonderful technique, and I really like all three examples. Most of all I can’t get over your amazing coloring of the birds. Sp life like!
These are wonderful. The first one is so rustic and beautiful. Fresh and springy for your second, the backgrounds look wonderful!
What a COOL technique and GORGEOUS cards! Thanks SO much for sharing, Wanda!
Naomi
xoxo
I love your weathered wood! I recently bought a Tim Holtz wood grain embossing folder. I really like the edges on yours. What is a distressing tool?
Gorgeous!!! I am gonna have to give it a try!!
What a neat idea! I am going to try that this afternoon. Thanks for sharing!