Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Growing in Unity 2017 - Day 3

Welcome to Wednesday!

I'm jumping to Christmas or perhaps, preparing for Christmas.
For my family, we use an artificial tree and we use the same one for YEARS!
We had the same tree for 12 years, then it started falling apart so it had to go.
For the next three years, we each made a homemade tree and used those
until the cats, dog, and packing got the better of them.
Last year, we broke down and bought a new artificial tree.
We will put it up the day after Thanksgiving, or as some people call it
Black Friday. I'm more of a Cyber Monday type of person

Today I'm doing a photo tutorial of how I made this card

Step One: Stamped using Memento in Tuxedo Black

Step Two: Stamped using Tim Holtz in Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Squeezed Lemonade, and Gathered Twigs. Fussy cut them out and fringed the edges of a couple of trees.

Step Three: Colored the image using Copic markers. Fussy cut along the top edge of ground, truck & trees but not all the way to the edges of the card.

Step Four: Inserted trees behind the truck and glued into place

Step Five: Finish it off by topping the Star in Sparkly Nuvo, adding a bit of White Puffy Paint for snow, and Tattered Angles Glimmer Glaze in Waterfall on the truck windows.

The back: The new Unity Company Stamp! AWESOME!!!


Stamp Set used for this one is the October Kit of the Month
You can sign up for it HERE
It is a monthly subscription and a super fun to be a part of!


And a bonus card: It's one layer using a multiple stamp technique so you get shades of the color

Don't forget to leave a comment on each day's post to be entered in the drawing!

27 comments:

  1. Great cards! I really love those trees! Such an awesome Kit of the Month!

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  2. Love it. Also love your unity stamp on the back.

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  3. Love the cards you shared!! We’ve had the same artificial tree for years. It’s slowly becoming more bare and lights are going out... but I just can’t replace it. It’s beautiful to me. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Wow, you knocked it out of the park with this one!!!! Love how you did the trees!!! Wouldnt have thought to cut a fringe....Great job!! Thank you for the Step By Step!!! Gave me some great ideas!!!

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  5. I love your card. The snow tracks are very cool.
    --Phaline Mays

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  6. Paula, your Christmas creation is spectacular. It is put together so beautifully! Love your one layer beauty, too!

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  7. Love your snowy scene. The trees are cool. Hugz

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  8. Oh, wow!!! This is so cute! I love the snow and what a fabulous idea to place the trees behind the car! Terrific cards!

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  9. Really love the idea of providing a tree background to this stamp, looks great! I also liked how you handled the windows of the truck! Snow ridges around tires looks great too!

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  10. Cute idea to put the trees behind the truck and I love puffy paint for snow. The multiple stamp technique on the snowflake card is also a nice touch.

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  11. Great snowy scene with the truck and trees and beautiful snowflake card.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  12. Ok that truck card is just awesome! I love the snow lines! Thanks for the tutorial! Amazing work!!

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  13. What an awesome & genius idea to cut above the truck to tuck in the tress! I love that card. The 2nd card is very pretty; love that sentiment.

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  14. Neat idea :) I am not ready to think Christmas cards but I did get my KOTM so maybe I will... Thanks for the great ideas!

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  15. Another great card. Love the trees behind the truck

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  16. Great tutorial and super cute card!

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  17. Wow, what a great amount of work you put into that first card! It really shows how much you cared. Love the snowflakes too!

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  18. Love the scene that you made
    Adding the trees gave the
    card a lot of interest.
    The blue card is fantastic.
    thanks for sharing.

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  19. love this card...

    caroline king

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  20. Love that truck stamp. Very nice cards.

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  21. I love love love the details in the first card. The layers give it a 3D effect. The CAS card is perfection. Thanks for sharing your talent.

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  22. Super cards. I like how you tucked the trees behind the truck. The snowflake card is lovely.

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  23. I think this is my favorite KOTM! I can see using every single stamp. Love the tree tuck idea I am so gonna try that. Also, your bonus card is just downright gorgeous!

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  24. Great attention to detail with the windows and snow and nice layout with the repeating of the tree.

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