This card began as an A6 white hammered card blank. The first thing I did was to stamp the tree image once on to white card, brown textured paper and green ribbed paper using black staz-on ink pad. The stamp set I used was Creative Expressions 'Buttons'. I then cut the tree trunk shape from the brown paper and cut out the leaves shape from the green paper. From the white paper I cut out the top of the tree outline and then coloured the edge foliage in a lime green ProMarker. Next from some red paper I cut out the berries for the tree by drawing round a button and cutting by hand as I didn't have a circle punch small enough. I then began to build up the tree. I adhered the green leaves to the lime green coloured outline and then added the tree trunk and branches. Berries were then added to complete the paper pieced tree. Next I created some landscape by tearing some green ribbed paper and layering it up on the card base to resemble a grassy hillside. I inserted the tree between the layers of green grass so that it didn't look like it was standing in mid air. I did not adhere the top of the tree yet as I wanted to stamp the balloon image to look like it was behind the tree, so stamped it then adhered the top of the tree to the card. I stamped the hot air balloon using distress inks and coloured them with ProMarkers, the actual balloons were again paper pieced from coloured paper. A sticker with the words 'make a wish' was adhered to the yellow balloon. I stamped the three flying birds using black soot distress ink and finally adhered a 'happy birthday' sentiment in the bottom corner.
This card is being entered into the following challenges:-
Daring Cardmakers Challenge - Lets Plant A Tree
You can check out the details here http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/lets-plant-tree.html
Charisma Cardz Challenge #20- Here Comes Summer
You can check out the details here http://charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-20-here-comes-summer.html
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Paper Piecing
You can check out the details here http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/if-paper-fits.html
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Happy Crafting xx Hazel
