Hi everyone. Here's my Design Team card for the latest challenge at Merry Monday (#84). Today it's a theme challenge ...
I just love this inspiration photo ... and plan to CASE it in the next couple of weeks! :)
I wanted to come up with something a little new for me. So today's card has trees die-cut from gold matte card stock, which I dry embossed with the Musical Flourishes folder from Cuttlebug (LOVE the elegant design from this embossing folder). Then I squirted gold stickles onto the raised portions of the embossing. LOVE how this turned out. The card is so much better in real life ... the glittered trees are so pretty! I wanted them to be the focal point, so left the rest of the card fairly plain, just adding a couple of banks of snow (with clear stickles along the top), the sentiment ... and a knot of twine (natural twine with a gold thread running through it).
Here's the close-up:
Stamps: Handy Christmas Greetings (Amy R)
Paper: White (C.C. Designs); Gold (SU!)
Ink: Early Espresso (SU!)
Accessories & Tools: Big Shot, Tree dies (Holiday Cheer set from Hero Arts / Sizzix); Musical Flourish embossing folder (Cuttlebug), gold stickles, clear stickles, gold hemp twine, Stamp-a-ma-jig, adhesives, glue, and dimensionals
I hope you're inspired by the photo challenge and will join us at Merry Monday this week. Drop by Lesley's blog (Always Playing with Paper) and check out the amazing cards by the rest of the Design Team.
I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:
CAS-ual Friday (CFC120) - inspiration photo
Curtain Call - inspiration photo
Christmas Card Challenge (#51 - Bling)
Addicted to Stamps & More - #71 - Anything Goes
39 comments:
Truly stunning and loving the gold...
hugs and xxx
Gemma
Love those glimmering trees! SO pretty, Loll!
These golden shimmery trees are wonderful! Beautiful card!
Love your gold trees Loll! what a creative idea to use stickles on the raised embossing - so wonderfully sparkly!
Love all the shimmer and shine. Very pretty card.
Awesome. Great idea to emboss your matte trees with the EF & stickles. Really added such sparkly dimension. Great snowbanks too. I've channeled you when I tried to do this recently. I need more practice :-). Lovely card. TFS & Hugs
Such a fabulous card, Loll! Love your CAS card and the sparkle on your trees! A very fun & festive card for sure! Have a wonderful week! :)
Stunning Glittery Trees and glitter on the snow banks. I can just imagine how much prettier it is IRL although I can see plenty of glitter in your pictures too. TFS Loll.
Gorgeous golden trees Loll, love the depth you've created:)
Val x
Gorgeous golden trees Loll, love the depth you've created:)
Val x
Absolutely love your gold trees with the stickles on them (and that beautiful gold threaded twine)!
Very very pretty trees love that you did the trees in "GOLD" and not the traditional Green just Beautiful..
Hugs
Dottie
Beautiful card with the gold trees and all the glitter! TYFS and joining in all the fun at Christmas Card Challenges #51. :)
Fabulous card Loll, I love the pretty trees and the glittery hills.
Gorgeous trees....what a great technique and I am with you about them looking better IRL...as does mine! AND--great minds think alike---love your sentiment!
Those sparkly trees are gorgeous, Loll! xx
Such a beautiful, blingy yet CAS card, Loll. What a clever technique you used on your trees!
I love your sparkly snowbanks and glittery trees are stunning, Loll! Beautiful holiday card!
Your trees are fab Loll. I love it when your blog emails through to me and my first thoughts are always 'great what's she done this time' in a nice way of course! This is lovely as usual
Love Lea x
Oh my! This is fabulous! Love the clean, simple design and all the sparkle. Thanks for playing along with ASM this week!!
I'm so casing your card, Loll, gorgeous! I too love the outcome! Rich and wonderful!
Oh, my, Loll, these are gorgeous trees! I love the way you've glittered the embossing! So elegant! And a perfect background!
Lovely, Loll! I just acquired the embossing folder and have used it for Christmas cards. You have the most unique designs. What are stickles? Gotta get some , , , Sarah
Stunning card Loll - the trees are absolutely Fabulous!! Thanks so much for joining us this week at ATS&M.
PS I also spent a few minutes enjoying your creations of late - you are such a talented lady :o) Hugs D
Wow! Your trees look like 24 carat gold Loll. I love the wee glitter trail in the background. Completely elegant.
Gorgeous, rich, glittery card Loll. Love the snowy hills in the background.
Karen x
Great design with the trees! The golden hues look lovely.
Fab card, Loll! I love the effect of Stickles on top of dry embossing.
Beautiful, Loll. The golden trees are just amazing!! Thanks so much for playing along at ATSM xx
gorgeous!
Love this card Loll, the glittery tree and that sentiment with the great fonts. Thank you so much for joining us at the Curtain Call CAS-ual Christmas Challenge!
Loll the glittery trees and the sentiment with the great fonts is fabulous. Thank you so much for joining us at the Curtain Call CAS-ual Christmas Challenge!
What a wonderful lot of trees you have Loll!! All so very beautiful and festive looking.
Terrific looking card!!
Love them all
hugs
Donna
love the textures on the trees. beautiful card! thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!
I love how this turned out, too. Those trees are magnificent.
Brilliant idea and brilliant results, Lolly! I imagine they are even more stunning IRL! Hugs, Dolly
Excuse me how do you squirt from stickles !!!!!!!! I want/need a video of the squirting technique however you did it the result is fabulous !
Marie
Such pretty, elegant trees and love the snowbanks. Gorgeous card, Loll.
Such an elegant card with those gold embossed and glittered trees!! Love it!
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