Everson Festival of Trees!

Today is setup day of the Paper Arts Club 2011 Everson Tree and here's a sneak of it before it leaves my house!  I chose a white tree this year because we've always had a green one and I went out on a limb to be a little different!  I wish you get a chance to see it in person as it is really pretty and against the white tree, everything just pops!  The Festival is once again at Shoppingtown Mall in the former Bon Ton store.
Another element to our tree that you may not know about is the star topper.  When the tree is all decorated, I always finish it with wood stars that I purchase at a craft store.  Every year is a different design and this year I chose the solid red card stock to coordinate with all the other bits of red.  Here's a closeup of it:

I hope you've enjoyed what I consider to be our Club's most important community project of the year!  Thanks to every Club member who donated a card each month.  This year we have 130 cards on the tree!  I would love to scrapbook all our trees we've donated over the years.  There are so many I struggle to remember the year of our first one but I believe it was 2000.  I do remember it was made of diecut little boxes made to look like ornaments.  We've come a long way since that tree and it is a Festival favorite from what I am told!