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I was making a birthday card for my dad and it just wasn't coming together.  I put it aside to work on something else and left Dad's card for another time.  When I came back to it, I decided I liked what I had completed so far and just needed to think a little harder on how to embellish it.  I dug around in my supplies and eventually settled on big bronze eyelets and some twine.

I cut off enough twine to wrap through the eyelets three or four times and still had plenty left.  I didn't want to waste it so I got the wild idea to finish it off with some macrame!  I made quite a few macrame plant hangers back in the day and amazingly enough, remembered enough to add a few basic knots to Dad's card.

I have wanted to use this Huck Finn image by Artistic Outpost because it reminds me of a childhood photo of my dad.   He's the one on the right, wearing the straw hat and holey overalls (hand-me-downs, no doubt).  You may not be able to tell that there is a live bird sitting on his hat!  That's his brother Jim on the left, holding another bird.  The two of them used to get in quite a bit of trouble together when they were kids.  Don't they look as if they could be in a Mark Twain novel?

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Supplies:
Brown cardstock by Bazzill; various patterned papers; rubber stamps from Artistic Outpost; Ranger Archival black ink; margin from a vintage book; Prismacolor Premier pencils; oval Nestabilities by Spellbinders; large bronze eyelets; natural twine; forest moss and walnut stain distress ink; corner rounder punch.