Watercolor Tree

My Father-in-law's birthday is coming, so I needed to make him a masculine birthday card.  I used one of my favorite sets, Lovely As A Tree.  I used the direct marker technique, sprayed the stamp with a fine mist of water, and stamped the image on watercolor paper.

Materials used are stampin’ up! Unless noted

Stamps: lovely as a tree, teeny tiny wishes

Paper: watercolor paper, old olive, cajun craze, chocolate chip

Ink: chocolate chip

Accessories: Markers (old olive, tangerine tango, cajun craze, riding hood red, chocolate chip), dimensionals, metallic brass brads, olive button (other)

Punches: word window punch

Techniques: watercoloring

Tanner, has been wanting to make a bee from my punches for about a week, so I finally broke down and let him play by himself with my punches and paper.  He knew exactly what punches he wanted to use, because he has helped me make a few punch animals.  Below is his bee on the left, and then Tate had to make a bee on the right.  Tanner's looks like a nice bee, and Tate's looks like a killer bee to me.  Oh, I couldn't talk Tanner out of putting the yellow legs on the bottom of his bee.  He knows they have legs.  LOL!  Love my boys!