Merry Monday #159 (Non-Evergreen Trees!}

The current challenge over at Merry Monday is 'Non-Evergreen Trees'. And, over at Hazel's Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge it's 'Use some of your favourite things'. I love stamping, embossing, die cutting, ribbon and sparkle - so out came a couple of stamps for the scene on this card and away I went:

I used:

- A6 white card blank

- a layer of white card, embossed using the Darice 'Snowflake Background' embossing folder and then trimmed to marginally less than A6

- attached a band of ribbon (SU's 'Lost Lagoon') with a little piece knotted around it and glued the whole panel onto the card front

- the image was stamped using Memento 'Tuxedo Black' ink, trees first and then the deer with the aid of my trusty stamp positioner. The trees are a Hobby Art 'Tree Scene' stamp and the little deer is probably by Serendipity

- then I covered the image in double sided sticky film, leaving the top still protected before die cutting it using a die from the Spellbinders 'Labels Eighteen' set. Then I peeled the top protective layer off and coated it with glitter similar to Glamour Dust but less fine - and a lot cheaper too

- next I used the next die up in the 'Labels Eighteen' set and die cut a backing layer from silver holographic card and glued the two layers together

- then added the finished panel to the card front using thin sticky pads

And of course, while all the stuff was out I made a total of four cards, all the same :)

This is also for Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for May, where it's always 'Anything Goes'.

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