Ornamental Pine

Well the Christmas Season is creeping up on us so quickly that I have had to up the pace of my Christmas card making, so that I am not on a last minute dash again (as in many years previously).

I have given myself a target of how many cards I need to make each week before

 the posting deadline, and it's not as bad as I expected. 

This is mainly because we have been doing quite a few each week at my classes.

I must get my cards sent off abroad though - Australia, Spain, USA and Japan - 

we must be near the deadline already!

Anyhow - here's the first of a series of cards that I have made,

 inspired by creations on Pinterest, using the Ornamental Pine stamp set.

The colours don't show up very well on this photo, but I used Always Artichoke for the pine needles and stamped the pine cone with Versamark, then heat embossed with Early Espresso

embossing powder, and highlighted it with a white pen.

I ink dusted the sky using Night of Navy, Marina Mist and Soft Sky ink.

I then used the splatter technique using a stiff paintbrush and white ink.

Not sure if you can see this - in reality it has quite a dramatic effect,

but loses this in the photography - sorry!