This is a sympathy card for a friend who lost her mother last week. I remembered seeing an illustration of a tree with heart leaves and used it as my inspiration. The card/tree are a single cut from Stretch Your Imagination. I cut it at 5.5?, which is as big as you can cut it on a 12 x 12 sheet. Then the second cut is a frame from the same cart. I cut it at 4.5 and the window fits perfectly over the tree window. I wanted more of the dark brown to show so I trimmed 1/4 inch off of each side.

The paper is DCWV’s Old World, I used four of the page designs from this stack. Two browns, a blue and a red. The brown ribbon is from Basic Grey. It took the entire bobbin to wrap the frame.

I drew the doodle with a brown Bic marker and colored it in with a blue prismacolor pencil. I was pleased that the blue showed up on the brown background quite well.

I really dislike my handwriting, oh well, it is written first in a dusky blue Bic marker. Then I used a Martha Stewart extra fine brown marker to go back over the lettering for legibility. The effect is nice, unfortunately the picture does not quite do it justice.

Next I used gold and blue Perfect Pearl to embellish the card. The blue dots look splendid as highlights on the branches. On the opposite side of the branches I applied Tim Holtz’s Black Soot for a very fine shadow.

The second picture illustrates how I used pop up squares to adhere the frame and add dimension.

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