I made this card for several challenges:

• Cute Card Thursday - Feature ribbon
• Crazy 4 Challenges - Texture (Stitching, Ribbon, Embossed paper)
• Saturday Challenge - Stitching

To feature ribbon I used brown ribbon for tree trunks for my button trees. This card is very textural. The light blue paper is embossed, the silky texture of the ribbon and the feel of the zig zag stitching all add to the texture. There is also hemp cording on the buttons. I used my Cricut Stretch Your Imagination cartridge to cut the word Spring from my patterned paper and shadowed it with dark brown cardstock.

I went onto the internet to search for quotes about trees. That is where I found the quote by Kenneth Patton about seeing the leaf. If you look forward to Spring like we do in Michigan you can relate to that day when the first leaves start to pop out on the trees and you see green after looking at bare trees all winter. I printed the quote in brown ink on the light blue embossed cardstock and shadowed it onto dark brown cardstock.