Good morning!
An extra blog this week! I completed a milestone a few days ago - I completed my 2016 new years resolution!!!!! (5 Christmas cards a month.....and I did it having got ahead and did Decembers five too!!!!! yay!!!!!). I will feel really good knowing that they are all done.
OK, this is one of the cards made for Christmas - I wanted a tree just like the one I have here at home at Christmastime - nice and big, fat, fluffy and bushy!!!! I took some photo's of how I got there so lets go on our usual journey shall we?
Started with my usual piece of Sheena stamping card and started to stamp the arms of my tree with a couple of different colour distress inks using a pine branch stamp by Stamps by Chloe. So as you will see, this tree started and continued to form from just one, the same one straight pine branch stamp.
Here we go! By now I have added the same stamp with white embossing powder for some of the branches.
Now I have added some stencilling to the background and some die cut ivy hanging down (ivy makes me think of Christmas as it's always evergreen and always there at Christmastime).
ooooh, looking good!!! You will notice now that I have "knocked back" the background to bring the tree forwards to the foreground (so that the tree doesn't get lost in all the colours). I have stamped an angel (Crafty Individuals) on to some shrink plastic and heated her to shrink her right down for the top of the tree and the baubles are also on shrink plastic from much larger ones by Stamps by Chloe and some glitter has been added to the baubles and the angel.
With some small hole punch circles of mirror card and some Nuvo pearl drops, a stand and some ribbon we were done! Oh, have you spotted the secret ingredient? - yes, matching feather pieces - perfect!
Mat and layered.
I got the exact effect that I wanted, a nice, fat, bushy and fluffy tree!
Hope you like it too,
I would like to enter this in to the Try It On Tuesday challenge "Trees are green... or any other colour":-
Thanks for stopping by,
Leanne xx
Just Fab! Thank you for joining us at Try It On Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteWell done Leanne for getting ahead with your Christmas cards, I'm still thinking about mine! It's a lovely card and it's great to see how you've built up the different layers of green. Crafty hugs, Sandra x
ReplyDeleteThank you Sandra - you'll have to try my new years resolution in January - 5 Christmas cards a month, it was great (and very achievable)! I love Christmas and could have a little play every month with my Christmassy stash!! xxx
DeleteThat's a perfect take on our theme Leanne! Thanks for sharing it with us at TioT this time.
ReplyDeleteFab project, thanks so much for joining us at TIOT! Valerie
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