Monday 25 June 2018

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:



AAA - #118 Use a frame







19 comments:

  1. Your trees are beautiful on your Christmas card, Marianne! Love your custom embossing! What a clever idea to stamp the trees upside down for ocean waves! The seahorse and starfish look very much at home there! Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up, CAS Watercolour and CAS Christmas!

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  2. Two very creative and beautiful cards Marianne! LOVE the layers of embossing powders on your beautiful Christmas tree card. The colours are all gorgeous together. The vellum banner is the perfect way to finish so you don't cover up any of the background. Your ocean scene is gorgeous with the waves of tree ?? what?? That is so clever to use the tree to create the movement in your ocean. It looks AWESOME! Thanks for playing along with us at Twofer Card Challenge, CAS Mix Up, CAS Watercolour and CAS Christmas!!! Whew! :) xx

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  3. You amaze me each time, Marianne! I never would have thought to use a tree top to make ocean waves, but look at that, it works great! The addition of the seahorse, starfishies, and framing work to complete the fab design! And using your trees as trees to create a shiny embossed forest makes a brilliant Christmas tree! Thank you so much for joining in Twofer Card Challenge #6! Hugs, Darnell

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  4. Wow, what a great way to combine all these challenges, Marianne! Your liquid platinum heat-embossed background is gorgeous and the custom mixed grey/blue/glitter trees are so beautiful.
    The second card is very creative, repeatedly stamping the tree upside down to make waves.
    I'm so glad you made it. Thanks for sharing the Christmas tree card at CAS Christmas! Hideko xx

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  5. Two lovely designs using the tree - wonderful color mix on your embossed panel! thank you for joining us in the CAS Mix Up!

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  6. How lovely to see a different shaped frame! Love how you’ve used the trees for an underwater scene, so clever! Thanks for playing along at AAA Cards.

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  7. both cards are wonderful, I love the yummy platinum with blue trees such a beautiful effect. You under water scene is so creative. Thanks for joining us at CAS Christmas with this great masculine card

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  8. My word this is genius! I would never have thought that one tree could be a wave too! Such a clever idea. And so glad you managed to get into the challenge! xx

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  9. It's an expression of genius to create sea waves with a tree! A great idea and perfect performance
    Hugs,
    BożenA

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  10. What creative and beautiful cards. Loving the technique on the first card, so effective. Fun idea to use the tree on the second card and the frame die cut shape looks wonderful x.

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  11. Two fantastic twofers! Wonderful masculine Christmas card. The colours are beautiful and rustic. Very creative to create waves with the trees in your other card. So fun. A fabulous combo of challenges too. Thank you for joining us at CAS Christmas Masculine card challenge. x

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  12. Dit is niet zomaar iets maken, maar puur creëren!
    En dat spat er van af. Zo mooi gedaan, Marianne.
    Liefs, Ineke☀️

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  13. Two beauties! And despite this being summer and the ocean only days away, the Christmas one really does it for me.
    Cheers, Barbara

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  14. Fabulous 'ocean' scene card Marianne, wonderful idea to use the trees as the waves - looks fantastic

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  15. so clever and creative....lovely cards
    Thanks so much for joining us and playing along at the CAS Watercolour Challenge.
    :) Karen

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  16. WOW! Never would have guessed the seas card was actually a tree stamp... fabulous! And the 2nd card is a beauty. Love the liquid platinum elegance.

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  17. Clever usage of your trees. Love how you decorated your frame with the sea creatures. Thank you for sharing with us at AAA Cards. =) Tracie

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  18. I love the way you've placed the sea creatures on the frame, great idea. Thanks for playing along at AAA Cards

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