Lovely Trees

Hi all!

I've got 2 "tree" cards to show you all today. The first one here is mostly about adding incredible shine to a card! This card is getting entered into the Hero Arts monthly challenge for shine and also the Simon Says challenge to show a holiday greeting.....and one more for the Inky Impressions Christmas challenge.



I stamped the Hero Arts music background using Versamark, then stamped the trees using 2 colors of brown distress ink. I watercolored a bit around the trees to fill them in using the distress inks as well. Then I sprayed the whole blue layer with Perfect Pearls, and the white layers got sprayed as well. Stamped the sentiments using distress ink too (brushed corduroy). Then I wanted a bit more shine so I came over the trees and along the edge of the white layers using my Versamark marker, then dusting on some clear embossing powder. The shine and shimmer on here is amazing....and let me tell you it was very hard to get a decent photo of it (tried about 20 different shots).....yikes!

The tree stamp is by Stampin Up "Lovely as a tree", one of my all time favorite stamp sets. Both the sentiments are from Hero Arts clear set "Holiday Sayings", a new favorite of mine for all those Christmas cards.

This next card here is one I made last winter.....but never sent out- ooops! I found it among some piles of cardstock today.......what a surprise!



 I had fun expiramenting here using some masking and lots of time trying to make nice shadows and such (trying to be real artsy here- ha!) It's surely not perfect- you can see all the little oopsies up close......but it looks pretty cool to me and I thought I would show you all anyways!

The large scene of trees is a stamp by Innovative Stamp Creations and the pine tree is by Stampin Up, same one as above.  I used a small circle as a mask for the moon, torn paper to create the ground, and one of my Copics for the shadows. Lots of use of the Versmark markers and the polysparkle embossing powder to make the trees shine. I haven't played with this stamp in a really long time....just might have to try another version of this really soon using different colors.

Thanks for stopping bye and hope all of your holiday shopping, wrapping, baking and what not is going well!

Inky Hugs, Anne