Morning!
This week's challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog is all about trees, festive or otherwise!
I decided to go a bit sparkly with mine.
Stamps: The Greetery - Christmas Time Sentiments
Dies: The Greetery - Christmas Time Sentiments, Lil' Inker Designs - Stitched Stars (r), The Greetery - Deco Frames, The Stamp Market - Dotted Tree
Other: Distress Oxides
I actually had the Dotted Tree die cuts all ready to use from when I cut a load of different colours from left-over card last year.
The cool pink stitched tree is actually layered on a solid heather coloured tree for extra pop.
I stitched the pink tree with DMC metallic thread (boy will I not be trying that again in a hurry!) and gave the offset glued trees a splattering of white ink.
The background uses 3 shades of blue Distress Oxide ink, toned down with a little Picket Fence ink before it was spritzed with water, dried with the heat gun, then sprayed with Blizzard sparkly mist and given the snowy ink treatment.
Once the background panel was dry, I ran it through the Big Shot with one of the newest additions to my Greetery stash, the Deco Frame dies.
I love the cut lines in these dies and the beautiful frame that really brings the tree front and centre.
I used another of my recent Greetery purchases for the sentiment, the Christmas Time banner is stamped in Dew Drops ink, then the sentiment was just stamped over with Onyx black Versafine ink.
I added a little extra Dew Drops ink to the ends of the banners and some Stickles Star Dust glitter for a frosty look.
Finally, once my card was assembled, I added a sparkly star to the top of the tree.
Make sure you check out the wonderful projects from the rest of the design team here, and play along if you can!
Happy crafting!
 The Greetery - Christmas Time Sentiments stamps Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 The Greetery - Christmas Time Sentiments dies Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 Lil' Inker Designs - Stitched Stars dies (r) Shop at: MISC |
 The Greetery - Deco Frames dies Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 The Stamp Market - Dotted Tree dies Shop at: MISC |
 Altenew - Dew Drops dye ink Shop at: MISC |
 Distress ink pad - Picket Fence Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad - Broken China Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad - Speckled Egg Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 Distress Oxide ink pad - Tumbled Glass Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Altenew - Sweet Dreams ink cube set Shop at: MISC | SHC |
 Bazzill Cardshoppe - Marshmallow Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Bazzill Cardshoppe - Taffy Shop at: AZ | EH | MISC |
 Memory Box - Majestic Hues glitter pad Shop at: EH | MISC |
 Dr. Pj. Martin's Bleed Proof White watercolour Shop at: AZ |
 Studio Calico - Mister Huey's color mist - Blizzard (r) Shop at: SBC |
 Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC |
 Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ |
 Taylored Expressions - Blender Brushes Shop at: MISC |
 Tim Holtz - Distress Sprayer Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Tim Holtz - Stampers Anonymous Splat Box Shop at: AZ | SBC | SHC |
 Waffle Flower - Mini Media Mat Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC |
 Ranger - Artist brush set Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
 Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ | SBC |
 Sizzix - Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ | SBC |
 Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC |
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