Sorry It's Pasture Birthday

Here's my card for the current Fusion challenge.  I paired the sketch with elements from the inspiration photo, including the farm animal theme and woodgrain elements, for this belated birthday card.

My farm animals are from Lawn Fawn's Hay There stamp set. I colored up the pig and cow images with Copic markers then cut them out with the coordinating dies. To fill in the scene, I stamped, colored, and cut out the set's barn and a sun and cloud from the All the Cloud stamp set, too.  In a nod to the wood panels in the inspiration photo, I used a fine tip pen to draw lines on the barn to mimic that look.  I usually color the barn image red, but I went with a muted brown to bring in more of the elements from the photo. The elements were arranged on a stitched green hill with a polka dotted sky using foam tape for dimension.  I left enough room at the bottom of the green panel to stamp the "sorry it's pasture birthday" sentiment in black ink.  I matted the panel on kraft cardstock before positioning it on a woodgrain patterned paper panel on a green card base.  A pair of coordinating fishtail flag strips layered on to the top of the cardfront overlapping the image panel completed the design.

Materials Used:
Hay There and All the Clouds stamp sets, Hay There and All the Clouds dies (Lawn Fawn); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); markers (Copic); New Leaf, Aqua Mist, and Kraft cardstock, Aqua Mist patterned paper (Papertrey Ink); Necessities-Wood 6x6 paper pad (My Mind's Eye)Landscape Trio dies (Mama Elephant); Fishtail Flag STAX dies (My Favorite Things); foam tape