Tree Trio

Here’s my card for this week’s sketch at Page Plans. The theme for the week was trees. I was able to find some tree images that worked perfectly with the trio of narrow panels in the layout. I incorporated the images with some supplies from i {heart} papers to create this card.

I stamped the two different sized tree images from Papertrey Ink’s Made of Snow set on scraps of Kiwi Kiss cardstock, then trimmed around them. I painted them with a light coating of sparkly Angel Wings Shimmerz and set them aside to dry. While they were drying, I embossed some Baja Breeze panels with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dot embossing folder, then layered them on Kiwi Kiss mats. I attached the trees to the embossed panels using dimensionals to look like they were set against a snowy sky. I added a pink self-adhesive rhinestone to the top of the largest tree.

I arranged the tree panels on a piece of pretty striped My Mind’s Eye Be Merry holiday paper. I stamped the “peace & love” sentiment from the Hero Arts Jolly Christmas stamp set directly on the patterned paper in bold red ink. The scalloped strip across the bottom of the cardfront comes from a sheet of winter themed die cut elements that coordinate beautifully with the My Mind’s Eye patterned paper.

Here's a close-up photo of the trees. It does a much better job of capturing the embossing and the shimmer than the larger photo.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Hero Arts Jolly Christmas stamp set, My Mind’s Eye Be Merry Candy Stripes designer paper, My Mind’s Eye die cut sheet, Angel Wings Shimmerz paint
Other: Made of Snow stamp set (Papertrey Ink); Riding Hood Red and Chocolate Chip Classic inks, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, and Pink Pirouette cardstock, Chocolate Chip marker, dimensionals (Stampin’ Up!); Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug); self-adhesive rhinestone (Michaels)