Friday 26 March 2010

Tree- mendous

My Graphico have a theme challenge and a sketch challenge every week, which effectively means they offer a challenge choice to everyone to join in with one or both, depending on your time and inclination.
I used their lovely tree freebie images to join in this week with their Challenge #41 - In Threes.
I opened the trees in PSP (Paint Shop Pro) played with the sizes and then printed them off along with a computer generated sentiment, before cutting around the lot with scalloped scissors. 

There was a small strip of spotty paper in my scrap box which provided a nice backdrop and this was matted onto yellow card.  The green card was embossed on the cuttlebug with swiss dots and then matted onto another piece of yellow.  A small yellow bow is the perfect embellishment for the scalloped oval greeting.
Once again I find myself eligible for more than one challenge ...
The fresh spring colours allow me a second entry to Rosie_D's Challenge #67 - Yellow, Green and White and also to join in at Charisma Cardz #12- Spring.
Rainbow Lady's current challenge asks "In my garden I see ..."   - trees and birds are both visible in mine, (although admittedly they don't look like these ones), but then again, she never asked for real life ones so reckon I'm pretty safe and Pixie Cottage Challenge 12 is to use circles - there are plenty of them here with the globe trees, the spotty paper and the swiss dots.
Hope you all enjoy a wonderful weekend ... oh and remember we "Spring  Forward" an hour on Saturday night/Sunday morning if you're in UK!

16 comments:

Annie said...

Tree-mendous card Max
Need to talk to you about these images as I can't get them - Help!!

Ann xxx

Tracy said...

Hellooooo Max,
Your card is treeemendous!!!
Loving all the scallops and pretty papers.
So mrs Mcginty how are you doing and how is your Dad keeping?
Will give you a ring on Mon morning if that is okay and we can catch up on our goings on.
I am away to hairdressers this morning as i look like a wild woman dragged through a bush backwards,lol!!!
Take care and catch you at the start of the week.
Big hugs to you all
Tracy
xxx

Max said...

Whoops Ann - have now added the link.
Sounds great Tracy - look forward to it =)

Saskia said...

Thanks for joining us at Rosie-D's Challenge with your beautiful work!

Saskia :)

Twiggy said...

Gorgeous Max. Well done.
Twiggy x

Nancy said...

Beautiful card, Max:O) Lovely design.
Thank you for joining My Grafico, good luck!
Nancy;O)

brenda said...

Hi Max,

This is just lovely What and lovely colours that fit our challenge theme so well.

Thank you for joining us at Rosie D's.

B x

Mervi said...

Lovely card!
Thanks for sharing this with us
at Rosie D's Challenge!
Good luck;-))m

Risa said...

What a super cute card! Thanks for joining us at The Pixie Cottage!
hugs
Risa:)

Rainbow Lady said...

You sure are safe with this one Max. It is lovely and fresh and bright. Thanks for sharing Love Cynthia x

Allison said...

lovely card
Thanks for joining us this week at Charisma
AllisonX

Tracy said...

Gorgeous creation, thanks for joining Rosie-D’s challenge, good luck.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Rita said...

Fantastic card Max. A lot of work in this one. Hugs Rita xx

Sandra H. said...

Oh this is cute! Love the setup! Thank you for playing with the Pixies!

Anne said...

A cute card! Thanks for playing with us at the Pixie Cottage!

Hugs, Anne

artish said...

lots of circles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!gotta love Swiss dots! thank you for playing in the circle challenge at the pixie cottage!