This card was created mainly for the Tea Pot Tuesday challenge this week (MMTPT152). It is an abacus made from a tree and owls. The owls and wood grain stamps are new to me. The topiary stamp is really old and the Simply Best is medium old. So I also fit within the use old and new stash challenge for Thursday (WT329).
For this card I applied blue and green in directly for the background on white paper. Then I stamped the wood grain twice to make a long piece (C.C. on Crumb). I hand drew and cut the trunk then sponged and distressed the edges. I also stamped the topiary trunk stamp many times and cut them out for branches. I die cut the leaves and stamped them with two greens and leaf stamp. Then I used pieces of them for the foliage. I stamped along the trunk to mark the numbers represented by the abacus. The leaves and flowers and owls represent the beads/numbers. I stamped and colored and cut out the owls. I stamped and cut out the flowers and the sentiment (punch). I also sponged the edge of the sentiment in Teal.
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011 GMT Views: 1383
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Fri, Jul 01, 2011 @ 4:18 PM
Tee hee! OMG! This is so cute! I love that big ole tall three with its little resident owls. Some are sleepy...some are wide awake but all are adorable! The leaves are so cool....and the background you created is awesome!
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