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: 1397
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