Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at the new quote stamps released yesterday from ClarityCrafts. I made this one using the ‘trees and their mantles’ stamp set and have picked up blue, green & frame from Festive Friday‘s inspo list – I thought this little tranquil scene was appropriate for World Mental Health day as well.

So I started with yet another inky mop-up piece from my stash (on one of the small squares of Clarity’s stencil card) that had a nice sky effect. I stamped the tree trunk & branches in ‘potting soil’ Archival and added the mantle (leafy crown) in ‘rustic wilderness’ Distress Oxide, together with the grass along the bottom.

I stamped the quote into the gap using ‘watering can’ Archival.

I then used a square embedder to create a frame on a 6×6 card blank, ran a black Sharpie around the edges of the topper and attached it in the centre of the frame.

I was looking at this card yesterday when I drafted this blog and reflecting on the news about the vandalism of the iconic tree on Hadrian’s Wall at Sycamore Gap. If you haven’t heard about it, here’s a link to the BBC’s news coverage. I can’t get my head round why someone would deliberately take a chainsaw to a 300 year old tree in a public place – it seems so utterly pointless and has clearly affected so many people who love the area. Sometimes I really don’t understand the world we’re in.