Christmas Theme Week: Day 3

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Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I’m so happy to be back on the blog with this super fun and very colorful slimline card featuring the cutest Christmas trees celebrating the holiday season. When it comes to making holiday cards, I don’t particularly have a favorite color palette, I like the traditional red and green, pastels, and even rainbow, like today’s card, for some extra fun.

I started off by cutting a Strathmore bristol smooth panel using the largest Slimline Peekaboo Windows die, and I colored that panel with oxide inks. When I make rainbow cards, I like to create tone on tone looks using my favorite oxide inks, so I first blended a base using, from left to right, kitsch flamingo, dried marigold, squeezed lemonade, twisted citron and salvaged patina oxide inks. And I added a fun tone on tone tree pattern to my panel using the Layered Christmas Trees stencil #1 along with, from left to right, picked raspberry, spiced marmalade, fossilized amber, mowed lawn and peacock feathers oxide inks.

I added lots of textures to my background, starting with water droplets that I dried with a paper towel. I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water and added splatters all over the panel using a slim brush. And then I did the same with liquid stardust for sparkling details, and with fossilized amber distress spritz for gold details.

Next I cut all the bits and pieces to create my five little trees, and here is a detailed list of the dies I used: 
• Big Christmas Cupcake: trees, large and small stars, scalloped decorations, baubles (cheeks) • Build A Monster – arms & legs, mouths.

I added white splatters to my trees, and then assembled everything: I glued the cheeks, mouths, stars and cheeks on each tree, and to make my card extra fun, I added wiggly eyes to each one of them to give them more personality. I attached the orange and green trees on my panel first using 1mm foam squares, next the pink, yellow and aqua trees using 2mm foam squares, and then the arms and legs using foam squares as well.

I gold heat embossed “Noel” from Winter Greetings on white cardstock, cut it using the matching die, and tucked it between the yellow tree’s arms. And since there was a little bit of space above the trees, I decided to add some coordinating sentiments: “Merry & bright”, “Oh what fun!”, “Ho ho ho” and “Peace & love” are from Sentiment Strips: Christmas, and “Fa la la la” is from Winter Birds. I cut each sentiment using a Sentiment Strips die, attached each strip above its matching Christmas tree, and finally stuck my panel to an 8,5 x 3,5 inches card base.

And that’s it! Thank you so much for stopping by, and Happy Holidays!