2009-07-15 Friendship is a Sheltering Tree

Finally! A rain day and I don’t have to work on painting the outside of our house. That is what my major project has been these days (sigh).

I grabbed my coffee and box of scrap papers and started working on Mary Jo’s Sketch TSSC78 I dunno what it is, the sketch looks clean and easy but this morning nothing was clicking with me. My friend Sally sent me some punchies of a fence that I had wanted to use since she was nice enough to mail them to me so I started with that. Sally told me that this is a Martha Stewart punch. {Thank you Sally!} Then came the tree and leaves and doggone if I didn’t even have some tree words that I got years ago at a rummage sale and never even used. (words by Delafield Stamp Company {now a closed company or I would have been at their stamp store})

I took some distress ink to the fence and then a black micron pen and drew in some wood grain lines. I used the distressed stripes on the bottom piece of DSP and then rubbed lightly with some Antique Linen distress ink. The leaves are a die cut from Sizzix called Branch w/leaves.

Here you can see some homemade dew drops These are the ones pictured in the link that show they’ve been colored with alcohol inks. You can see the leaf die cut in the background. I cut these out of an olive green DSP but it looked to plain so I used a blending tool to add shabby shutters distress ink. Finally before adding the branches to the card I dusted them with Gold Pearl-X. The edges of the mats are a gold metallic marker drawn on.

The tree stamp is by Stampin’ Up and is from the set called Thoughts & Prayers. Another Thank-you goes out to Vigilant20 that gave me this versatile set!

Just a side note; I am now keeping the tree words in the same box as the tree so I remember to use them.

And don’t you wish that Cuttlebug would have the names of the embossing folders ON THEM? I have to look up what the name is of a folder every time I use one other than Swiss Dots LOL!