Talk about squeaking it in! I ran home from work (well, not really, I drove) and I quickly ran upstairs (well, not really, I had a little snack first), and then I got busy putting this together from the pieces that I had pulled out last night. The colorburst background was a failed experiment for Rachel's birthday card last week, but luckily, I seldom throw anything away (much to my family's chagrin most of the time, though we're not buried in paper yet!).
The trees are a Kottage Kutz die and the swirly snow is from Memory Box. The thing that took so long was tracing around the glitter-paper swirls and then fussy-cutting to have the white snow beneath the curls.
Yes, it does look warped in the picture from the background paper not being flattened out enough, but I'll put it between some book pages and it should settle down enough by next December to look perfect.
I took a close-up of the trees and snow hoping to show the sparkle, but not sure I achieved that.
Oh, and I added some white pearl paint (can't think of the darn name of it at the moment, so if you really want to know, leave me a comment and I'll back to you on that), to the tops of the branches of the trees.
The one thing that I did not do after our epic snow storm this weekend was take pictures of the trees full of snow, however, I think that most of it blew off before daylight anyway because it was pretty darn windy. At least that's what I'm telling myself right now for a missed opportunity for today's photo challenge prompt of TREES.
Okay, check out the rest of the "Christmas Tree Forest" at the Jingle Belles blog, why dontcha!
holy WOW that was a photo finish right there! what a glorious card!!! the background is outstanding... me thinks i see colorburst or brusho goodness...??! and the white trees and swirly snow soooo totally pop. magnificent, missus. ♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely card, those trees and the background are fab. of course the swirly part is great too. thanks for the lovely comments on my cards, it's so much fun to find stuff to make a card. and we are not buried in paper yet either. lol.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular detail. Very nicely done. You did a great job.
ReplyDeleteI really like this one . . . especially the background and swirls on the bottom.
ReplyDeleteI would call your *failed* experiment a huge success ... thrilled to see another awesome holiday tree at jingle belles.
ReplyDeletePS ... snacks always come first
ReplyDeleteOH this is such a pretty card with that gorgeous background! I love the snowy sparkle beneath the trees too!
ReplyDeleteThis is glorious!!
ReplyDeleteA fabulous card Lorraine, such a beautiful background.
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This is stunning! The background is a lovely shade of green, but even more striking for me is the white trees and snowy swirls and glitter…really gorgeous work, in my humble opinion!
ReplyDeleteLumiere paint? Mine dried up totally, at least the dauber part did. I should use the rest of it up before it dies! The background was a great rescue. And genius idea to use that die for snow, I must remember that since I have it and don't use it nearly enough.
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