Cattails and Fairies

I struggle at times to make a project Frilly or Funkie when I am mailing it to someone, like this one for my 82 year old aunt in California, but I was inspired by the challenge at Frilly and Funkie: Back to Nature.

 I purchased a stencil several years ago of this cattail image because I have always loved the look of cattails.  I thought I would use some texture paste, but alas, my jar of texture paste was all dried up when I opened it!  How does that happen? Then I thought I would emboss the image and use some glue and some brown flocking, but do you think I had any flocking in brown? No, only red, orange, pink, yellow, and purple!  I could have sworn I found some brown flocking specifically for this stencil! Anyhow, I ended up embossing the image on some kraft cardstock and inking through the stencil...not quite what I had in mind, but hey, the craft store is no longer right around the corner. I added a skeleton leaf on top of a real leaf I had collected a few years ago to give it some contrast, a fussy cut image of a fairy, and a couple of 'raindrops'.

I was also reminded of this beauty recently when I went to collect my mail, there is a huge field of cattails in one of the open areas of our neighborhood!  I had never seen it before this year!

Thanks for looking, I'm happy I was able to finally use my Cattail Stencil!