More Upcycling!

 Good morning bloggers!  Like yesterdays post, I am still working through the C's in my old dictionary with this card too.  It was sitting on my craft table in handy reach so I decided to continue playing with it here.  I have used the stamps from the new Falling Leaves and Foliage sets and simply stamped them with a black archival ink pad on to my old dictionary pages.  For each of the small leaves, I cut them out with the medium size of the square eyelet dies.  I did a little bit of inking with Antique Linen distress ink.  I used the die as a stencil and made stitch marks around the inside of the squares on each of them.  I stamped the large tree as my focal point and did the "out of the box" technique, leaving the tree trunk to come out of the teardrop circle die.  This is the perfect technique to be used with images such as this one because the branches are far too intricate to cut out and layer on to your card.  By allowing that portion of your image to be on the die cut, you don't have to do any laborious cutting out.  You need only to cut out the tiny bit of the trunk portion of the tree.  I stamped my sentiment on to the decorative paper in the top corner, embossing it with clear powder. I also added a small border across the centre of the card which just called to me for some vintage ribbon and a zipper flower!  I finished the edges of the card with our new bronze coloured PVA glue from Cosmic Shimmer.  I really like the old time feel to this card with the upcycled dictionary pages, what do you think?  All for now, Sue x