Primitive Button Tree

Hi. My name is Kim and I'm a texture-aholic! I think I hit a new level of texture with this card! I know that this isn't my usual style, but I gained a whole lot of inspiration from Anna Wight's feltie Christmas Ornaments :) And since the inspiration was from Anna, I thought that I would use one of her stamp sets too! Last week while shopping with my friend, I was convinced to buy a clearance baggie of wooden buttons - I had no idea what I was going to use them for but I knew that I would use them one day...more sooner than later in this case!



Anna's wool felt ornaments remind me of a Christmas in the country with all of the handmade critters. I wanted that feel to my card and this was my approach. I used some recycled warm and natural cotton quit batting for the background of my primitive "tree". I then took some tracing paper and stamped the tree from the new Whipper Snapper set called Hello Neighbor on it and pinned it to my batting. I used some basic embroidery techniques and backstitched the outline of the trunk following my stamped image and then filled it in with crude stitching. I decided not to create the outline of the leaves and used my buttons to create the shapes. After the stitching was all finished I tore out the tracing paper from underneath my image as the stitching perforated it for easy removal :)

I sewed the image to some cardstock to even up the edges and then added some decorative cross stitching once I adhered it to the base of my card. I added the sentiment and distressed the edges before I finished it off with a blanket stitch. This card allowed me to have a taste of something that I haven't done in quite a while... both quilting and embroidery. I was part of both of the local guilds before I had my kids and just never got back into it...then I was bitten by the papercraft bug! The rest is history!


Card Recipe:

Stamps: Whipper Snapper Designs - Hello Neighbor
Paper: PTI White, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Kraft
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Warm and Natural Quilt Batting, Wooden Buttons, Emboridery Thread, Needle, Cuttlebug, Dimensionals, Mat Pack, Piercing Tool, Sponges, Craft Knife, Tracing Paper