The first class was clean and simple, and I liked the technique Julie used for her trees. While she made it a one layer card, I had the Tim Holtz Crazy Birds stamps with matching dies, and wanted to try them out.
I masked a snow hill on the bottom of the card front, then colored the sky with Simon Says Stamp steel blue ink, using a stipple brush to, I hope, look like a swirling snowy sky. I then stamped a tree (from Hero Arts Sending Holiday Cheer stamp set) several different times, using first and second generation stamping to get color variations. I was hoping to give the card the illusion of distance for some of the trees.
After stamping, coloring, and die stamping a bird, I stamped and colored a Santa hat and candy cane, also from Tim Holtz. Since I don't have the dies for this set (yet), I was forced to cut out by hand. I'm not good at this, and the die set is definitely going on my Christmas list!!
I glued the hat and candy cane to the bird, then glued it to the front of the card front I had made. I stamped the sentiment from Tim Holtz on the front, and used a sentiment from the Hero Arts stamp set--may your home be filled with the joys of the season--for the inside. The sentiments were stamped in Momento Tuxedo Black.
The front was trimmed to 5 1/4 by 4 inches, and was then attached to the card front.
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