Sparkling Blue Tree

Many of you know that blue is my favourite colour.  So when I saw the new Peace on Earth mood board, I was pretty happy.  I picked the top right image as it made me think of a new Lavinia stamp of a tree with gifts underneath it that I hadn't yet inked up.

I stamped it, then keeping with the colour scheme in the mood board, I used coloured pencils to add some colour to the gifts under the tree, trimmed the panel, bordered it with a dark shade of blue shimmer cs, mounted it on a dry embossed background, and added everything to a lighter shade of blue shimmer card base.

Then the fun started - I added many tiny and small gemstones in a few shades of blue to the blank circles on the tree and many tiny stick-on shimmery stars to the blank stars on the tree

Here's a close up of the tree with the gemstones and stick-on stars:

It's a stamp I hadn't inked up before so I'm linking it up over at the NBUS Challenge as well.

Here's the mood board that inspired me:

We'd love to see cards from you either inspired by our mood board or "anything Christmas".

I'm also entering it at the Sparkles Christmas Challenge where this month's challenge is "sparkle & bling".  I have lots of that with the sparkly stick-on stars and the gemstones!

Supplies:
Stamps - Lavinia tree, Art Impressions sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Faded Jeans
Paper - white cs, light and mid blue shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die, Spellbinders rectangle dies, embossing folder, fun foam, light and dark blue gemstones, Stamendous tiny stick-on stars