I was looking for challenges this weekend and found TGIF’s White Christmas challenge. Since I appear to be a little behind in my Christmas card production, that seems like a grand idea. I suppose that if I made some multiples, I’d be in better shape but I keep coming up with new ideas.

Here’s the challenge banner that inspired my card

This card looks better in person – I took at least 4 photos and this is the best. Apparently it’s doomed to not look its best. I started off by embossing a piece of whisper white with the softly falling TIEF – I love this embossing folder. I then cut out the trees using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits dies and mossy meadow. I did contemplate adding something to look like snow on the trees but figured it would just look untidy, so left them as is. Which I’m happy about now that the card is finished – I like the mossy meadow background to the card. Although now that I’m done with the card I realize that it would have been much easier to have cut out the trees on the white and used the negative space to show the trees. Apparently I wanted to do it the hard way! Then I used one of the new in colours, tip top taupe to cut out the window using the hearth and home thinlits dies. After some fast fuse use, the window was constructed. This was when I decided that I wanted a sentiment. In white. What better than Let it snow? This is from the Happy Scenes set and I heat embossed it onto the mossy meadow card base. The envelope liner was cut using the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds DSP.

I think I’ll make another of these cards and this time, I’ll make it the easy way. One less piece to put together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz