Another Christmas Card done!

I do believe Mother Nature and Old Man Winter are at war against us! It is back to being very cold and we had more snow yesterday than we had at one time all winter. I managed to go down to the lower studio for awhile after lunch today but it got too cold by 4:30 and I had to come back up. This has been a record breaking cold winter to the point that the Great Lakes are about 90% frozen. They seldom reach the 50% frozen state. In fact, this year Lake Superior which seldom freezes at all is frozen over and the caves that are not normally accessible are now ice caves and the photos are spectacular. There are cars parked all over the roads with people walking into the ice caves. This may not happen again in our lifetime so people are taking advantage of it. Just go to the Internet and type in Lake Superior Ice Caves and you will find lots of photos. They are too far away for us to visit but it would be awesome if we could.

Today’s card is for the Merry Monday challenge over at www.alwaysplayingwithpaper.blogspot.com. The challenge this week was to use green, brown gold and white on a Christmas card. I struggled with this card for some reason. It was just one of those hours when nothing would go together. In the end it’s okay, but just okay.

 

Lots of layers on this card. The background is just white cardstock than I ran through the Provo Craft snowflake embossing folder and then sponged gold ink over the top. You can’t really see them in the photo but there are two more layers at the bottom that were run through a swirl embossing folder, the edges ripped and edged with gold. This is where I ran into trouble. The first tree I made I tried to emboss some snow on it and it just looked horrible – garbage for tree number 1. The next tree I thought I would try to crackle. I keep meaning to buy some Tim Holtz crackle medium but keep forgetting; but, I had some old crackle medium that is really for wood but I tried it – garbage # 2. So I ended up die cutting another tree (Tim Holtz for tree and deer) and just sponging some brown and green ink on it to add a little dimension, and then added the little sticker stars. The deer was embossed with the Provo Craft Christmas tree embossing folder and then I ran the Versamark pad over the embossed areas, added gold embossing powder and heat embossed it. When I laid it on the white cardstock it looked blah so I inked up the Tim Holtz script stamp and stamped the script three times to fill the space and then glued on the deer. The sentiment banner was cut from the same paper as behind white/scripted layer and I added a peel-and-stick sentiment and star and popped it on with glue dots.  I hope who ever gets this will like it more than I do. I think I’m not liking it because of all the angst it caused. I like doing things quickly and efficiently and this was not one of those times.

 Time to go and make supper. That’s all for a Thursday!

 Cheers

Violet