Friendship is a Sheltering Tree

Here's my entry for this month's My Favorite Things guest designer challenge. The challenge theme is "get sentimental," or to make a sentiment the focal image on your project. I may have gotten a little away from this, but I'm really pleased with how my project turned out.

I used an inexpensive 4" x 6" wooden frame to make a piece of decorative art. Blue and green cardstock panels form the base of my art. I cut the top of the green panel in a wavy shape for grass, then stitched it in place with my sewing machine.

The pieces for the simple scene are made with some of MFT's Die-Namics. I cut a cloud from white felt and a sun from gold felt. A button without any buttonholes is at the center of the sun to add some dimension. The cloud is machine stitched in place for a sort of puffy look. The tree is cut from brown cardstock and filled in with green cardstock leaves. Once I had all of the scene's elements in place, I stamped the sentiment from the Sheltering Tree set on the panel using brown ink to complete the scene.

Materials Used:
Sheltering Tree stamp set, cloud, sun, and tree Die-Namics (My Favorite Things); Rich Cocoa ink (Memento); Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, and Close to Cocoa cardstock (Stampin' Up!); button (Papertrey Ink); felt; sewing machine; wooden frame