Tree Hugging

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Hi everyone,

it's Dot here with a tutorial for our Wood Challenge #82

I have been eye-ing off the bark out the front of my place

for some time to make something with, so I was
pretty pleased when this challenge came around.

The tree out the front is called a Paperbark tree.

The bark starts peeling away from the trunk

and has the most amazing colours.

I peeled a heap of the layers from the tree and brought them inside to dry.

You can peel the bark super thin, which is what I did, and you can layer them up

any way that you like.

I chose some that had different colours and textures and glued them together

with gel medium.

The stamp 'Evil Eye' was stamped onto some tissue paper.

Then on the back of this I painted some
white acrylic paint ... carefully.

Once it was dry it was easy to attach to the bark

with gel medium.

I added some branch effects by using a small section of the

Grunge Tree stamp with brown archival ink.

The bark was easy to rip to the size that I needed for my card.

Then it was a simple task of attaching it with gel medium.

The words, from Carmen's Veranda, were stamped

with white ink onto black card and cut out.
After edging with more white ink I attached it to the bark.

The card still needed something else ...

so I painted the eyes of the Evil Eye's eyes with blue acrylic paint.

There is still a little bit of time to enter our Wood challenge

for this fortnight.
Either here or over on facebook.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x

Wood Challenge: *Magic*

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Hi everyone, Liesbeth here!
There's still time for you to join our Wood Challenge till August 31st!

I hope to inspire you with this card. I made the wood grained background by wiping (direct to paper) my Distress Ink pad Vintage photo onto strips of paper of different widths). I sponged the edges of the strips, again with Vintage Photo and glued then on a card.  I stamped Large tree crown and ATC tekst set 1 also on the background. 

I stamped Ancient woman 4, added some colour and fussy cut her, then stamped the word, ripped and inked the edges.

Stamps I used: Large tree crown, Ancient woman 4, ATC tekst set 1, and Misc. Words.

Just because

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Hello all Cathy here with you today.
I have a simple and quick card for you all today.

Stamp Used: Cherry Blossom

These are the steps I did to make this card.
1. Get white cardstock, cut it smaller then the card base.
2. Stamp Cherry Blossom  in brown ink.
3. Grab a green marker and 2 different pinks and color the leaves green and the dots with the 2 different colors of pink.
4. Glue to front of pink card base.
5. Add word sticker.
Done.
Quick, right?
I think you could make these up in batches and have on hand when you need a card.

I hope you will join us in the wood challenge. You can enter here.

Wood Challenge: The Evil Eye

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Hi from Laurie here with a project for the current challenge: Wood.  Lots you can do with this theme, but it might make you think!

I made a card here using the Grunge Tree background stamp and the Evil Eye stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs.

I began by creating a background, using a circle stencil and green and blue Distress inks.  I cut around the edges with some deckle-edged scissors and mounted my piece to a black background.

Next I stamped my image onto white card stock and began coloring it with Copic markers in shades of gray and brown, using yellow for the claws and eyes.  I added some Crackle Accents to the eyes and teeth to give them some shine and make the stand out.  I fussy cut my image and affixed it to the front of my card. 

So put on your thinking caps and see what creations you can make with the Wood theme.  We can't wait to see what you make, and you just might win some free stamps!!

Through the Keyhole

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Hello Portal Peeps!!  Gail here today with a peek through the Keyhole at Weeping Man.

Hmmmmm, seems that he spotted us!!

Since the current challenge theme is Wood I decided to stamp Carmen's Veranda Keyhole on woodgrain paper and emboss with gold powder.  I added some more colour using Promarkers and then I cut the center out of the keyhole.

I stamped Lost Coast Designs Weeping Man on white card with brown archival ink
and watercoloured with Brusho's.
Green hair??  Maybe that's what he's crying about??

I masked Weeping Man and stamped Lost Coast Designs Leaves Background.

I placed the Weeping Man panel behind the Keyhole panel and mounted it all on a dark brown base card.

Thanks for dropping by.
Don't forget to link up your stamped makes inspired by the word Wood for
your chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Rustic Wood

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Ink Stained Roni here with a fun rustic card for our newest challenge... Wood!

I made a fancy fold card using Lost Coast Designs Trees Background and Carmen's Veranda All Who Wander sentiment and wood grained paper.

Join the fun and link up your stamped Wood inspired projects
for your chance to win Lost Coast dollars.