I've done a bit of a challenge catch up today with this card. First of all, it's for today's MIX challenge - trees. I have a friend that pulls pretty things off of the cards she gets and saves them for me to add to my cards. She just gave me these pretty cut out trees yesterday and I thought they'd be great for the Trees challenge.
Second, I'm celebrating Time Traveler Day a day late. Sure there are a lot of interesting times we could travel back to, but don't you feel like you need to go see what dinosaurs actually looked like? I do. And here is what I expect to find.
This card was sort of doubly inspired by this week's Featured Stamper, johnsopa. First of all, I loved the watercolor wash of the sky on this card with trees. And then I noticed her cards with recycled envelopes and paint samples at the very beginning of her gallery which goes along with my recycled trees. I had a lot of fun making this card this morning, and I'm so glad I could catch up on those three challenges!
Date: Friday, December 9, 2022 GMT Views: 228
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Sat, Dec 10, 2022 @ 10:03 AM
This is super cute, Jenn. The trees are a great find, and how handy to have a friend who helps keep you supplied with cool items. As for going back in time, I'm less adventurous than you -- I wouldn't want to have to worry about a velociraptor swooping down on me.
This is super cute and so cool that you incorporated some recycled trees! I love to recycle just about anything, but these are super cool!! Love your watercolor wash sky in the background. You achieved some really nice pooling of color and depth. Awesome card - thanks for the case!!
-Pat
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Sun, Dec 11, 2022 @ 2:39 PM
Well, you were certainly inspired by these various challenges to create another beautiful and fun card. Love the trees -- especially the way the glittery trees looks against the plain one. And your watercolor wash did create a lovely sky for these guys to do their gift exchange. Great punny sentiment. Great coloring. Great card.