Earth Day.....Trees

Last week I entered in the challenge at Raise the Bar which was April showers, I was shocked when I was asked by Joni to be a guest designer this week.  WOW thanks Joni.  This was my first time posting on this blog so I was quite excited to hear that I was a guest designer.

Since it is Earth Day on April 22nd, the theme this week is trees.  Make something with trees.  I made this card using a tree stamp that I have and then added Flower soft to the trees.  Since it is also Spring I wanted to make the tree look like they were just beginning to blossom, with a few blossoms on the ground.

Iused some plaid paper from one of my DCWV paper stacks.  The brown paper off on the left was just a plain piece of brown paper that I sprayed with Tom Holtz Walnut Ink spray.  It is pretty cool, I just sprayed it on the paper and it colored it, but the best part is that is also gives it texture, it almost feels like soft fabric.  I used the Terra Cotta color on this piece and the ran it through my Cuttlebug using the diamonds in the rough folder.
Here is a close up of the trees.

 

I distressed the edges of the paper and added brads to the corners.  I also chalked the paper behind the trees to look like clouds.

Thanks so much for stopping by, please leave me a comment so I know you have been here, and I love reading them.  And thanks again Joni for having me as a guest designer this week.