Sunday Snippets - Christmas tree, from Dudley

Dudley, clever little chap that he is, popped a couple of dies in with his recent Birthday card to me - and this card uses one of them:

I used: 

- 7" x 5" white card blank, side opening

- an unbranded Christmas tree die, it's BIG, but so perfect on a 7" x 5" card. I die cut it, plus two others, from large pieces of Tonic pearlescent 'Navy Dazzle' card

- glued the navy tree outline piece to the card blank - having first found a die for the 'star' so I could position it with similar space above and below

- die cut the 'star' using a die from a set of snowflake dies bought from The Works a good while ago - and a snippet of silver mirror card from my 'on desk' snippets basket - then glued it to the top of the tree

- at this point, I actually had three identical card blanks, each with a tree and snowflake on - the number three was important to my plan

- then used the tree die again to die cut into a precious sheet of LOTV 'Frosty' paper - carefully hoarding the leftovers of course

- it happened to be the snowflake patterned paper so I glued the top piece into the top gap in the tree and worked my way down, gluing the right piece into every third gap. So long as I kept count it was much easier than die cutting three differently patterned sheets then playing with all the pieces out of the die - that was a disaster begging to happen knowing my luck!

 - did the same with the other two sheets - of course, the final one was a doddle!

- added the fallout of the pots to the bottom of the tree then popped a silve die cut bow on, from an unbranded set of small assorted bow dies

- lastly, out came the Josy Rose Hot Fix Nailheads and I added a sprinkling of silver star nailheads towards the top of the card where it looked a bit bare

- three more cards towards Christmas - yay!

These cards were great fun to make and three different papers seemed to be just the right balance IHMO. Bonus - I later found a packet of more LOTV Frosty papers squirrelled away! 

I'd like to enter this card into the folowing challenges:

- Rudolph Days August Challenge HERE 

- Allsorts Challenge #833 HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #78 HERE - the Christmas Tree is a NBUS die

Remember, I've just kicked off a new challenge over in the Snippets Playground HERE. 

Dudley Pupdate: Dudley is delighted to know that the slow progress with my hand here gets him out of being groomed - bit by bit it's improving but still annoyingly slow. Len is having surgery on Thursday so that will mean two of us not running on full power, happy days! Earlier this week I suddenly realised that Dudley had been missing for over an hour, right through us eating our evening meal and for a good while after - and he's never far away if there's food around! Searched the house high and low and my gut told me he'd been locked outside in the back garden. Eventually, Len checked and there he was, sitting quietly on the back lawn gazing at the back door - quiet as a mouse. Not one little woof even to let us know where he was!  He dashed straight to me for a cuddle and his fur was like cold silk - but he's fine and bounced right back. Yesterday was Dudley's 'Gotcha Day' - 7 years since he came home with us to live. And of course he had an extra treat or two! Photo taken just before we picked him up from the breeder:

Love as always, Dudley Dog and me