It seems ages ago that I found myself short of a few Christmas cards to post off to friends. One of the designs made was entered in the challenge at ATCAS and luckily enough I won!
Anyway as a result I'm here as their GD for today's latest challenge with this card.
It was inspired by the cue word -
I made this to cheer myself up when I had the flu, I thought it would be a simple make but my brain was a bit foggy and it took awhile before I was happy with the design.
On a small panel of white card, I stamped the top half of a Penny Black tree stamp in the top right with Versamark then heat embossed with white EP. Once cool, I stamped the tree again using Salty Ocean DI. When this was completely dry I added some of the same Salty Ocean with a bending brush to the top half of the panel. The deer was cut from dark brown card using an OI die, I tried black but it looked too stark.
The snowdrift in the bottom right was cut from the same card as the base and covered with Wink of Stella to give a subtle shimmer effect. The sentiment completes the panel, which I mounted on foam over a white base card.
So please pop over to the ATCAS blog for more frosty inspiration and then why not join in?
I'm joining in over at:-
#171 WINTER
Just the picture
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ReplyDeleteGroetjes Gerrie
Such a beautiful 'winter' card, Julie! I love your frosty trees and how you placed the deer to create your scene. Beautiful soft ink blending, too!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for being our GD for this challenge and thank you for playing along with us at Fusion!
What a wonderful take on the code word. Love your frosty trees and the silhouette deer to make the trees shine. Thank you so much for being our guest designer at ATCAS. Hugs! Raga.
ReplyDeleteSweet winter scene! The deer silhouette is perfect with the blues! Glad you joined us at Fusion!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing card! Love the blue background with the brenches! Thanks for playing along with us at CAS on Friday! Crafty hugs Linda
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful interpretation of the code word, Julie. I love this frosty scene. I love the sihlouettes against that wonderful sky. Thanks so much for Guest Designing with us At Addicted To CAS.
ReplyDeleteThat looks just like the frosty scene we had here this morning!! Bowie and Bumble came home from our walk with frosty tails and feathers!! I love that shade of blue and the deer looks very majestic, and perfect in brown actually!! xx
ReplyDeleteThe white embossing along with the blue has made your tree look brilliantly frosty Julie! A beautiful card. Vicky x
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful Jules. Love the branch in deep blue and white. Great CAS design. xx
ReplyDeleteJules, so glad to have you as a GD and what a beautiful card you have created. I love the ombre focal point and all that wonderful white space. Fabulous card
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