Christmas Card Club - Forest Scenes

It's getting ever closer to the festive season so you might be looking for quick and easy Christmas cards to make. This one is simple and you could use any festive papers and stamps.  I stamped my greeting from the lovely Stampin' Up! host set in the winter mini catalogue in Night of Navy ink first so that I could then work down the design for easy positioning.

The tree stamp is from Most Wonderful Time stamp set which is part of the Stampin' Up! product medley also called Most Wonderful Time.  I stamped in Shaded Spruce and used second and third generation ink to create my forest scene requested by Kate for our Christmas Card Club theme.  She lives up in bonnie Scotland so I thought she would appreciate the tartan papers and this scene of pine trees.

I was given a super swap at our Stampin' Up! conference recently from Jackie Noble, a demo from New Zealand, where she used two ribbons for decoration and so I used her idea and like how it allows you to bring out both the green of the trees and some golden sparkle, it's also easier to tie this way.

Kate also requested glitter and sparkle so I added some glitter, although difficult to photograph on this dull day, to the trees giving a snowy/frosty appearance.  You can see another example using this set here.

 My second card is one that I cased from a US demo again with second generation ink stamping to create depth.  This time I used the Stampin' Up! Into the Woods set which is one of my favourites.  You can see another card with this set on this stampingscene post.

Again there is glitter on the trees and also along the bottom to give the snowy base area a glittery appeal.

I hope you've had a good Sunday and perhaps on this dull day you've crafted too.  We did manage a walk in half light this evening, but Little Miss Norty wasn't keen on the mud and puddles and jumped her way through.  

Here's to a good week ahead. 

Happy crafting Zoe x

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Stamps used

Into the Woods #151359

Greatest Part of Christmas (Reward Set) #150554

Itty Bitty Christmas #150513

Inks

Shaded Spruce #147088

Night of Navy #147110

Papers & Card

Wrapped in Plaid Papers 149596

Night of Navy # 106577

Whisper White #106549  or thick #140490

Shaded Spruce # 147006

Ribbon

Shaded spruce/gold #149597

Gold Shimmer #152156

Moving Along with the Times Snowflake Challenge

Today I'm back with the Design Team at Moving Along with the Times where we are sharing inspiration for cards with a snowflake theme.  You can join in our challenge with your makes here.  

For my card I masked off a piece of white card with low tack tape and then used sponges along with Coastal Cabana, Pacific Point and Night of Navy inks to sponge from light to dark creating a night sky.  

Before removing the tape mask I used an aqua painter to flick droplets of water across the sky and let them sit briefly before moping with a piece of kitchen towel.  This removes some of the ink and give the effect of snow falling.  I made sure the sky was dry before stamping on trees using a stamp from Stampin' Up! 's Most Wonderful Time product medley.  I stamped these in Shaded Spruce and some were 2nd generation ink to give the appearance of more trees in the background.  Again I made sure the ink was dry before stamping snowflakes using the little stamp from Christmas Countdown which can be bought to use with Stampin' Up!'s advent calendar kit, but is overlooked as a super stamp set for coordinating with all other Christmas sets for collage stamping and more.  These snowflakes were stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.   I also used the chalk marker to add some snow to the tree branches and with wet glue I added some snowflake sequins.  Be careful when you add wet glue to heavily inked card as too much glue can make your ink run and bleed.  

The sentiment is silver heat embossed and die cut using the Stitched Rectangle dies.  I've added a strip of silver foil card to add a little more shine! 

Don't forget to join our challenge at MAWTT and do take a look at the Most Wonderful Time Product Medley which includes all these wonderful goodies. 

See more details of Most Wonderful Time 

Thanks for popping by

Zoe x