Georgia Power Build a Tree

"Eddie" and I did the program at Ambassadors of Georgia Power on Wednesday, November 11. Since it would be challenging and time consuming to try to share two stamp pads and two stamps among 20 - 30 people, we decided to have them use punched shapes.

This tree was a card I had done for the Punch Class way back a year or two ago - showing how you could use the photo corner punch to make a tree.

As I was thinking about what we could do for the Georgia Power program, the thought popped into my mind: "Since Georgia Power has to cut down trees, or parts of trees -- today you're going to Build A Tree!"

They all seemed to enjoy the program and all participated -- all the men participated and built their tree card! "Eddie" and I were most pleased! Some were creative and made their own changes to the design, and we applauded their creativity.

For those that wanted to try their hand at stamping, we had prepared another little card that we had on a table over in the corner. Several came over after the meeting and made a Christmas card with the Merry and Bright set from last year.

Above is the Build a Tree card we did. We used the photo corner punch -- there are two different sized photo corners on the punch. The trunk of the tree we punched with a square punch, which we then cut in half with scissors. (Not "we" -- "Eddie" did 95% of the cutting and preparing of the make 'n take packets.) If you look closely, you can see that the tree trunk is textured so that it looks like bark. I had run the Soft Suede Cardstock through the Big Shot with one of the Texturz plates and was really pleased with the resulting "bark" look.

To make the card, we had a Barely Banana card base (it is more yellow in the picture because I adjusted the picture to make it sharper so can see the tree trunk bark). We built the tree from the bottom up -- we put down the tree trunk about 1" from the bottom of the card. Then the two larger photo corners and then the two smaller photo corners. The photo corners were punched out of Certainly Celery designer series paper.

We had stamped a couple of greetings for them to choose from and punched them out with the wide oval -- so they could glue those inside.

Note to Helen for future: Explain front of card and that tree goes on front. I learn a little something every time!