Funky Tree for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps, hope you have had a great weekend.

This is another of the samples I did for Leonie's Typography launch show, using the small script letters and the beautiful tree from the Funky Tree stamp set.

First I stamped the tree onto watercolour card with Versamark and sprinkled on clear embossing powder before heat setting

I scribbled some green Spectrum Aqua markers (Evergreen, Sea Green, Bud Green and Meadow) onto a white tile and coloured in the foliage with a wet paintbrush.

To get the colours for the tree trunk I scribbled the same greens onto my tile again and mixed each one with Begonia Aqua marker to get 4 different browns.

I cut down my card and inked around the edge with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, before roughening the edges with my scissors. I also flicked some of the ink at the card to give me some splats.

For the backing I drew around my topper onto the back of some old cardboard packaging and tore along the lines. I flicked some more Vintage Photo ink onto the front corrugated bit.

To do the letters I inked up some thin white card and cut it up to place over the small script sections of the letter dies.

This didn't give me quite the depth of colour I wanted so I pressed my ink pad directly over the top of all the letters again

I've finished the card off with white twine and a button before mounting it onto a Kraft card blank.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
We Love 2 Create #5 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
Crafty Cardmakers #183 Go Green
Simply Create Too #125 Lots of green
Creatalicious Challenges #110 - Anything Goes with optional Lots of green
Penny Black and More  Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations Close to nature
Happy Little Stampers (Watercolour)  AG option of smoosh
SSS Work it wednesday green

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x