Muse #91

Hi there,

I made use of my extra hour from the daylights savings time change to stay up extra late last night and squeeze in a bit of crafting! I'm not getting much free time these days, trying to wrap up lots of reno projects before the snow flies. Hopefully I can get back into the groove once there is a blanket of snow on the ground.

I was pleased when I saw Michele's challenge idea on the Muse blog this week, to do a set of cards with the same patterned paper. This is exactly how I roll when I'm crafting! I hate making duplicate cards, but I will often make 3 or more cards at the same time that are variations on a theme. I had a brand new pack of unopened patterned paper that I thought would work well for some Christmas cards, so I picked out this dotted sheet that resembles falling snow.

 For the first card, I also picked a green patterned paper out of the same pack to die cut my tree. It's hard to tell in this photo, but I used SU white glimmer paper for the rolling hills. It's also hard to see the dazzling details glitter added to the tips of the tree. I popped up some of the elements for a bit more dimension.

 The next card uses the same tree die (from PTI) with limeade ice cardstock. I added some glitter to it, and die cut the sentiment from glitter paper.



The final card has heat embossed pine boughs and a pinecone. I added some liquid applique to the tops of the sentiment letters, like snow collecting on top of them. It still needed a little something, so I added a strip of glitter paper.

Thanks for stopping by,
T