Musing on Roots

I was really drawn to this week's MUSE card http://musecardclub.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/muse-challenge-58.html as I love the new wooden paper I got recently and wanted to play with it some more.  I also wanted to play withe CASology's cue word of "roots" http://casology.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/week-86-roots.html so I decided to do a play on wood and use a tree...

The tree is a memory box die cut from the wood, coloured with copics and then glued back into place to give a one layer finish.  I added a teeny bit of shimmer to some leaves with a wink of stella brush pen and then stamped a PTI sentiment over the top.  To add a little balance I added a couple of strips of DP (Lawn Fawn into the woods) to the right.

Knock Knock

No, I'm not going to leave you with a bad joke from the 1970s - it just seemed appropriate to start with a knock as today's card was inspired by my front door.   Now my front door isn't the most inspirational thing you've ever seen, in fact photographing it has shown that it needs to be washed a painted rather badly.........

 
...but Chrissie and Jen over at Less is More wanted us to make a card based on the colour of our front doors  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/week-122-colour.html

My door is dark wood with a somewhat faded green trim so I decided to start with a wood veneer paper which was a good match for my door and die cut and embossed a circle from it.  I didn't have quite the right shade of green but this is closer to the colour I originally painted it!  I used it to cut a portion of a hill from a memory box die and stuck to the circle.  I then went for one of my favourite sentiment for when I don't know what purpose the card will have - this "wishing you" from PTI is very useful cos you can put anything on the inside once you know what you want it for!  I embossed it with vanilla white from WOW which I just love the colour of.  I then felt like it needed a little border so punched some hearts from the same two papers and overlapped them and finished with a little dotted line border around the circle.

After 5 hours with no power - I can finally get this linked up now too - I can't believe how programmed I am to electricity - a walk around the house in a power cut quickly shows you just how many things with a plug you rely on and how little you can get done with out it.  Thank goodness for the nice engineer who had to work on a Saturday to get us all back on the grid!