BBTB2 Challenge - Tree

Monday? Really? Well then get on with yah, I'll keep up, cause I can't wait to see what's next?  It is B2BBT Challenge Day and our wonderful host is the very talented Jayne.  Please visit our Challenge site for some fun inspiration and then join in.  Please remember your focus cut must be a Cricut cut, our simple challenge rules are posted at the top of the site.

Sometimes while creating a card I will get a story or words while I am working away on it.  I do not usually share them but this time I thought it would be a fun element and decided to create a Coven Mistress journal and adhere it to the top inside of the card.  Here is the little story/poem:

A Time Before and After

Long Ago but in Witches

Time, Now.

Journal Entry - Coven Mistress

The young witches, what a fright,

to teach and steer these flighty

beings before the Hallows Eve is

just not right.  So few come to

age at the beginning of the Hallows Eve

but the ones that do give magic its'

badge of Horror.

For one I have at present, is all

consumed wth hats, which to

wear, should she take a spare?

"My Dear", I said, "It would

be a grateful help if you would

put these hats upon a hat tree,

while altogether, it will make your

choice much clearer".

Upon my early evening walk,

around the bend at the edge

of the magical glen and to my

right, a small charmed tree stood,

stripped of its' leaves and on

every branch a witches hat

wiggled and squirmed for

position.  A circle of bats, spelled,

to keep them hoisted.

It took me no time to know

who to bring up to toe

the broom line.

"Young Witch", I said, "was

it you who stripped the charmed

tree off the glen of all its' leaves

and placed upon its' branches, the

plethora of hats?"

"Yes, Coven Mistree it was I and it

was you who advised me to

find a Hat Tree."

Oh, the Young Witches, what a

fright!

Now onto the card, this is a 6"X6" card, the background paper is a Heidi Grace design "Shimmer Glitter Paper" and I love it so much, I will keep 1 sheet in my stash forever, for those of you that have not seen it the top portion is black on white and the bottom is white on black a mirrored image. I used the bottom portion.  The tree is from Cricut cart "Wall Decor" and the hats were cut from Cricut cart "Pooh and Friends".  I drew and cut a template for the hat bands and gave a few of them gems.  The bats are Martha Stewart.  The ribbon from Hobby Lobby.  I think this year more than ever, the Halloween images and papers are THE BEST and I cannot remember enjoying the creating of them more than now.  Can hardly wait to see what you have in store for us on the subject of Trees, have a great week. Hugs

Post Script:

Well I finished the inside, it took me longer than the outside, lol, but I kept changing my mind about how I wanted to present the story/poem on the inside, in the end I decided to put a small journal for the Coven Mistress.  I sketched the spiral notebook and then cut off the spirals as they did not have them back in her time.  I then print and cut potions from the SLibrary along with 2 labels.  I did a wax seal for the front of the journal and since their time is so different I skewed it a bit and gave it a fracture.  Added a Martha Stewart bat.  The eyes at the bottom of the inside, I do not have a clue, I found it in my stash, I do not remember where it came from.

 Inside top - The Coven Mistress Journal

 The Journal open potion on left side - journal/poem on right, there is another page also.

The bottom inside.