Sweet Stampin' ~ Oh Christmas Tree

Get me! Blogging twice in one week!! I'm so happy to be back to my craft room and to my inks and pretty papers, but I am missing my wee doll and I saw her today at a Christmas function with friends. If I weren't too old now to be having kiddos of my own, I'd be well clucky! Little poppet was equally happy to see me which was lovely. But today, I'm here to share my Sweet Stampin' DT card, so to the job at hand...

Our theme this challenge is 'Christmas Trees'. I have a lovely Penny Black Stamp set which I've had a while now and has never before seen ink, so it had a little outing for this project. It was a cover gift with the Papercraft Essentials Magazine in Issue #113 from September 2014 I believe. The tree from this set is also available separately as a stamp called 'A Splash of Winter' by Penny Black. The cover gift version is called Wonder Collection. I actually made 5 Christmas cards using this stamp and the same technique for each card. I used green Memento Northern Pine ink for the image and sentiment, which is from the same stamp set, then added a sprinkling of snowy Frantage to complete the look. I had the perfect paper to use for the backing of these two cards, but as I only had a small sheet of it, made only two cards this way and the rest were mounted straight onto craft card. I really love how these first two came out. Still very CAS in design, but the designer paper just added that extra little touch.

The first of these two cards I popped the image up on foam and added a little gold bow to finish. I also edged the image with the same green ink as I used to ink the image and sentiment. The second card, I didn't use the ink around the edges and attached it straight to the card, but this time added a little strip of lovely glittery gold paper below the image. I love both versions and was so pleased with how this little experiment with Frantage went. I don't use it often at all, quite frankly I'm afraid of it! I seem to mess it up every time I try to use it, but this design worked a treat!

I hope you'll come on over and join us for our last Team Abi challenge of the year. We are being sponsored by the fabulous Crafts & Me. I LOVE their gorgeous stamps. We've had such a great year with wonderful challenges and fantastic sponsors. I'm looking forward to more fabulous challenges in 2017. So come and join us again before this year is out. Hugs, Wends xoxo

Challenge Entries:
Cute Card Thursday: #456 ~ Snowflakes
Crafty Gals Corner: #101 ~ Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl: December Card Challenge
Crafty Catz Challenge: #351 ~ Anything Goes
Come and Get It Challenge: Christmas Challenge
Moving Along With The Times: Christmas Scenes
Simon Says Monday Challenge: Let There Be Snow
Pile It On Challenge: #123 ~ Any Holiday/Celebration
613 Avenue Create: #192 ~ Anything Goes + Holiday Happiness
As You Like It: Favourite Christmas Song/Carol ~ That's Christmas To Me - Pentatonix. I just love the beautiful harmony's in this song and I also love their song Mary, Did You Know? These two songs I've played more this year than my previous Christmas favourite song, River sung by Sarah McLachlan.

Update: Thank you for the 'Top Rocker' mention 613 Avenue Create! That made my day :)
(Entry #226 ~ Dec 11-17 2016)