They all came up on the BINGO card challenge at the Handcrafted Greetings Forum, that's what! The challenge is to make a card with at least four out of the five items that make up a bingo.
This was a tough challenge and forced me to do a lot of thinking and planning! How was I supposed to use all that stuff on ONE card? Especially the snowflakes and hearts, then I thought to myself, "Valentine's day IS in the Winter, so it's really not too much of a stretch, but what about that tree?"
Then I remembered an old four seasons stamp set from PaperWishes and the rest was pretty easy.
I used Tin Pail in to stamp the onto a 3" x 3.5" panel cut from watercolor paper. I painted the trunk and branches with a brown watercolor pencil. After that, I re-stamped the tree using clear pigment, added some clear pigment across the bottom of the panel and embossed it with holographic embossing powder. For a little added dimension, I stamped the tree with clear pigment again and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Once that was done, I used a light blue watercolor wash for the background, then I stamped a few more snowflakes with clear pigment and embossed them with holographic embossing powder. I mounted it on a 3 1/4" x 3 3/4" Candy Applie rectangle and popped it up on a 3 7/8" x 5 3/8" Whip Cream panel. I added a gold ribbon from my stash to the bottom of the panel and popped that up on a 4" x 5" card base. I stamped the Happy Valentine's Day sentiment from the FSJ Annual Celebration stamp set onto a white tag with Candy Apple ink and mounted that on a scrap of Candy Apple cardstock and cut around it leaving a narrow border.
I think it turned out well.
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