Pine Tree with Magicals

I was thrilled to be asked to be one of the November Guest Designers for the SCS Color Challenge. This is my first card for it.  Here are this week's colours:

The colour on the right is silver.  The dessert option (just for fun) is to use heat embossing.

Here's my card:

I don't have Stampin Up ink or papers so have to get as close as I can with the supplies I have.

To get the first two colours, I used different Magicals powders. I sprinkled them on mixed media cs and spritzed with water, getting them to dissolve and flow. They give some lovely shimmer to the background that, unfortunately, I could not capture in my photo.

I die cut the pine tree using mixed media cs. I pressed a couple of shades of green and one of brown on my craft sheet, spritzed with water, and did the splash technique on the tree, continuing to add and blend colour until I got something close to the dark green in the challenge.

For the silver, I die cut a silver glitter star and stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in silver - heat embossing is the dessert option this week.

To assemble the card, I die cut two more pine trees out of white cs, glued them together, then glued my green one slightly offset to give a slight white edge for more contrast from the background colours and to give a little impression of snow on the branches.

I die cut two white snowbanks, one of which has the sentiment on it.

There's no deadline for entering a SCS challenge so if ever these colours inspire you, head on over to the SCS CC712 Cabana Party in the Silver Meadow challenge.  And I'll be back next Tuesday with another card in the colours of that week's challenge!

Supplies:

Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment

Ink - ColorBox silver; Distress Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Frayed Burlap

Paper - silver glitter, white, and mixed media cs

Size - 6x4.25"

Accessories - various aqua and green Magicals, Stampendous Silver Tinsel embossing powder, Tim Holtz Pine Tree Bigz die, sloped hills dies, small star die