Monochromatic Sky with Winter Trees

There's still a bit of lingering snow so it's easy to make Christmas cards!

I pulled out a leftover snippet of shaving foam marbled background and used it as a wonderful monochromatic winter sky for my trees.  They are die cut from a snippet of white cs, as is the sentiment tag that I stamped in a dark aqua ink.  The panel with the trees is popped up on fun foam.  I went over the trees with a Quickie glue pen and added glitter to them.

Playing in three challenges with this card:

The Paper Players - Monochromatic

And 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Winter Trees

And Pixie's Snippets Playground, where you have to use up snippets of paper, ribbon, etc. - I always have plenty of those leftover!

Supplies:

Stamps - A Muse sentiment

Ink - dark aqua ink spot (unknown brand)

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - stitched tree frame (unknown), fun foam

Marbled Thanks

Today's card is for the Paper Players.

I had a lovely piece of marbled background in my UFO box that seemed perfect for the autumn colours in the challenge image.

I used the shaving cream technique and created a bright colourful background. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and trimmed the panel down. I used scraps of co-ordinating colours of cs to cut three wildflower die cuts. The panel is popped up on fun foam.

A brief change from Christmas cards!!  But back to them tomorrow!

Supplies:

Stamps - Hero Arts sentiment

Ink - Oxide Walnut Stain, various reinkers

Paper - white cs, mixed media cs, scraps of red, brown, and blue cs

Size - A2

Accessories - shaving cream, Tim Holtz wildflower dies, clear embossing powder, fun foam

Thank You Wheels

The new Addicted to CAS challenge is "wheels".

I have a great stamp of an old penny-farthing bicycle that I rarely use so it seemed a great opportunity to get it out.

I made a shaving foam background, then stamped in black pigment ink and heat embossed.  I bordered in black and popped it up on fun foam.

My brother-in-law is an avid cyclist and often helps me out with things when he comes to visit so I'll save this for the next time I need a thank you card for him.

Supplies:

Stamps - unmounted, unknown stamps

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; reinkers: Distress Antique Linen, Salty Ocean, and Vintage Photo

Paper - white and black cs

Size - A2

Accessories - clear embossing powder, shaving foam