Can you spot the trees?

I had already given up hope to participate in this month's 'Tree' Twofer challenge, until I started working on my CAS Mix Up card yesterday and chose the tree stamp from an old Artemio set to do some triple heat embossing ... and started wondering if the trees would also make nice waves ... and they did.

I still had the CAS Christmas (Masculine) and CAS Watercolour (Ocean) challenges in the back of my mind, and I love how I've managed to create my cards for these challenges as well. The new AAA Cards challenge that went live today gave me the idea to put my ocean scene into a frame, instead of in a circle window, which had been my initial idea.

So here's a look at my Twofer trees.

I'm playing at Twofer Card Challenge #6

For my Christmas card, I heat embossed a panel of white cardstock using liquid platinum embossing powder and then stamped the 2 trees on the outside using some greyish blue embossing powder. I wanted to heat emboss the middle tree in green, but the green NBUS ep I had was way too bright for my purpose, so I mixed it with some of the grey/blue and some other NBUS glitter ep in a small container and used that instead. To create more unity, I then heat embossed the trees on the outside again using my custom mixture and then overstamped the middle tree again to heat emboss it using the blue/grey mixture, making sure I retained some of the green sparkle underneath. Some of the liquid platinum close to the middle tree dulled because of the extended heat, but I think it fits the scene perfectly. I did not want my sentiment to take away the focus from the trees, so I heat embossed it in white onto a strip of vellum that I wrapped around my panel before foam mounting the panel onto my 13.5cm square, dark blue card base.

I'm linking up this card at:

CAS Mix Up - Stamping & layered embossing powders + vellum

CAS Christmas - Masculine

For my second card, I smooshed a panel of watercolour card using CP ink (It's a boy) and another panel using Sauna, Bellini and Polished (all CP inks). Next, I stamped the bottom of my Christmas tree repeatedly upside down in the same blue ink to create my waves and stamped my starfish and seahorse onto the other panel using Versamark, Bellini and Polished and heat embossing in clear ep. After die cutting my panel and frame, I inked up the frame using Daydream ink (CP) and then heat embossed it in clear ep. The sentiment was also stamped in It's a boy.

I'm linking up this card at:

CAS Watercolour - Ocean

AAA - #118 Use a frame