Tree Angel for JAI #732

Happy Friday and welcome! It is almost 3 weeks til Christmas and the schools are finishing and the shops are filling up with shoppers. The jolly man in his red suit is inhabiting the shopping centres and the weather is heating up too. All of these are signs that Christmas is not far away here in Australia! How are your family's Christmas preparations going? Mine are running a little bit behind, but not too far. 

This week at Just Add Ink Challenges, we have a very cool sketch from Tina! Our design team have used the sketch as it is or have flipped it around to landscape and so can you. We hope that you can pop on over to the JAI blog and be inspired to join in the Challenge!

This week's sketch is really fun. But I wondered if I could use a little lateral room with those mountain and valley parts of the it....and as it's nearly Christmas, I had a light bulb moment - Christmas trees would be the perfect shape for the sketch design!!

The trees are stamped versions of Decorative Trees - the dies of this set are so spectacular but I thought I'd try the stamped version and see how it would work for my idea. Perfectly, it turned out!

The stamped trees are quite light and fun and pair with an older MFT set from my stash really well. 
For the lights, I stamped the ones above the puppy several times and coloured these and cut them out using snips. Every light and the cute puppy were all coloured with a mixture of Blends and Copics and then are slathered with Wink of Stella for some Christmas sparkle!

Card stock: Basic White, Basic Black, Summer Splash, Foil Specialty -  Grapefruit Grove

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Summer Splash, Lost Lagoon, Blends

Stamps: Decorative Trees

Accessories: Die cutting machine, Decorative Tree Dies, White EP, Wink of Stella

Non - SU: Stamps: Deck the Howls bundle (MFT-retired), Copics

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed my card and are inspired to pop on over to Just Add Ink and join in this week's challenge!

'Til next time,

Jan