BBTB2 Heritage Tree-Blog Hop-Giveaway

Our fabulous DT sister, Julie, is our hostess for this week's BBTB2 challenge and Blog Hop.  You should have arrived here from Lori's blog.  If not, and you want to start at the beginning of the hop, click here.  Julie asked us to use this curly branched tree which is the first cut on the Heritage cartridge.  I may lose a few followers and my DT Sisters are going to know for sure that I'm crazy when I tell you how I came up with my card design.  I saw it in a dream.  Yes, I know it sounds crazy, but it's the truth.  It came to me in a dream, what can I say.  Many times when I'm trying to think of a design I will look for a sentiment first on a few quotation sites that I frequent.  When looking for tree quotes I came across the sentiment I've used here.  That night I went to bed and in the wee hours of the morning I had the dream about a card with a circle window in it with the apple showing to go along with the second half of the quote.  As soon as the picture was in my mind I woke up.  I immediately jumped out of bed, turned on my Gypsy and got the design down before I forgot the dream.  I have the world's worst memory.  And so a card was born.  How crazy is that?   I used the Plantin' Schoolbook cartridge for a rectangle sized at 4.25 x 11" and the circle cut from the front of the card.  To get the correct placement for the circle I sized the tree to 5" then placed it onto the the front of the card on my Gypsy mat.  From there I could see the branch that hung the lowest and centered it in the circle.  The apple is cut twice at .75".  I attached one apple to the tree branch and the other on the inside of the card.

My husband really like this card.  He loved the quote (which has an anonymous author) and thought it was a good one for our granddaughter that will be graduating next year.  Good thing he suggested that because I really didn't know what I was going to do with this card.  I thought it must be some sort of subliminal message for me since it came to me in a dream.  LOL

I'm so glad you could stop by today and your next stop on the hop will be Carri.  Wait until you see her tree creation.  I have some great blog candy for our hop.  It's the Cricut Lite Cupcake cartridge.  If you'd like to be in the running for this cartridge please make sure you are a follower of my blog and leave me a comment.  Let me take this moment to say thanks for following and I appreciate your comments so very much.