Baby Shower Card - Baby Boy Style

While I was making baby shower cards, I decided to try a bit of Distress Ink scene making.  The card didn't turn out as I expected, more on that later.  Here's the details:

• The sheep are die cut using a Quickutz die that is at least a decade old.  These little critters are adorable in person, but let me tell you about paper piecing these bad boys together.  Each leg is an individual die cut.  I almost lost my mind trying to decide whether the sheep look like they are actually standing on a hill.  A couple of them look to me like they are about to break their precious little necks.
• Earlier this year, I had purchased a set of IO cloud dies at the scrapbook convention.  I, unfortunately didn't empty my convention bag (it is a nylon shoulder bag and I've pinned all my lovely convention pins to the outside, anywhooo).  When the construction and work was done on my house, I misplaced the bag.  Just found these dies again and decided to die cut some to use as a mask for my Distress Ink scene building.
• I used Peeled Paint, Faded Jeans and Scattered Straw inks to create my scene.  There is a little Vintage Photo in the grassy dirt as well.  The sentiment was stamped in brown Archival Ink.

When the scene was all made I couldn't shake the feeling that it wasn't girly.  The baby's room decorations were sheep and so I thought this themed card would work.  All in a rush I decided to stamp a sentiment on the inside and place some pink epoxy dots.  I thought that would help.  It didn't, so I made a pink card (shared with you a couple of days ago).

This card will go in the stash and I can use it on a future occasion where it fits better or I forget my strong feelings about the front.

I'm linking up to the following challenges:

City Crafter challenge Week #278 - Feeling Flat.  I think this card is as flat as you can go with die cuts - easy for mailing.

Word Art Wednesday's Challenge #200 Let's Celebrate.  Come join the fun as we celebrate their 200th challenge.