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Hello friends!  I truly wish that I was able to capture the colours of this card, but take my word for it, it is very striking!  You have to start with a much larger piece of card that your final finished piece to do this one.  The reason being is that as you cut into it, if it is smaller, the branches of the tree will fall away and you won't be left with anything you can work with.  If however, you start with a larger piece, you can cut the Family Tree four times in to the background (just the head of the tree inward, not the trunk) and your card will stay together except for the pieces of the tree you remove.  Next create a Pixie Powder background by tapping various colours on to a piece of coconut white card.  I used Aubergine Dream, Emerald Green, Burnt Orange and Straw Yellow for this.  Spritz with water and dry well.  Attach your black background with the tree heads cut from it over the top of the pixied background (I used spray glue for this) and now you can trim it to any desired size in your paper cutter.  The backing from the pixie powders will hold any of the sections of the tree background in place, nothing will fall off this way (I do hope that all makes sense!)  Next I cut the Bora Bora die out of white and backed it with black and cut the centre out.  I used a bit of leftover Pixie Powder background to use on the inside of the frame as the floor and I used the Tahiti and Bora Bora dies to cut a thin frame out of it as well and added it to the Bora Bora around the inside edge.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with one of the smaller hexagons and added a slightly larger black mat hexagon to it before seating it in the centre of the frame.  I completed the card with white and black mats and layers.  The finished dimensions are 6 1/4" x  7 1/4" in size.  All for now, Sue x

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