17 December 2012

Decorating the tree



Hi everyone and I hope you've had a good weekend. A card to share today with two gorgeous Tilda's, 'Jingle Jangle Tilda' and 'Tilda with two little gifts' from The Christmas Story Collection 2012. I also stamped the Christmas tree from the 2008 Christmas in two colours of permanent ink, brown for the base and olive for the branches. Everything is coloured with distress ink and watercolour markers and I've added the gorgeous Merry Christmas sentiment. I used the DooHickey poinsettia die for the flowers and the mistletoe for the leaves then faux stitched and stamped around the edges of the panel and mounted onto red and green card. To decorate the tree I added lots of little gems in various sizes and some stickles.

I'm entering my card into the challenge at Magnolia down under which is 'Christmas' and the challenge at It's a Magnolia Challenge which is create a Christmas card.

Back soon :)

18 comments:

Sasha said...

Festive and fabulous! Chris. Beautifully coloured Tilda's and your tree looks gorgeous!!

Sasha said...

Festive and fabulous! Chris. Beautifully coloured Tilda's and your tree looks gorgeous!!

Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards said...

Hi Chris, Just beautiful is this lovely card.. adore the exquisite colouring as usual God bless your Christams tie, Shaz in Oz.x

Anita Houston The Artful Maven said...

SWEET!!!

Jo Austin said...

oh Chris... I absolutely love it. Such a perfect design. Is the edges stamped?

Jane said...

Oh wow Christine that is fabulous!
Hugs
Jane

Redanne said...

An absolutely stunning card Chris! Your colouring is always so perfect, love the way you have coloured the tree, it looks so real and the Tilda's are coloured so beautifully. Your faux stitching had me fooled, thought it was real and the poinsetta's are a wow factor on this stunning card. Hugs, Anne x

Crafting Queen said...

Such a beautiful card, love your colouring!

Kelly said...

Your card is amazing! I love the tree and the shadows with each image on your card. The border is perfect and the poinsettia's finish it off perfectly. Beautifully colored!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Kelly

Juls said...

gorgeous!!! as always your colouring is amazing!! I love the blinged up tree!! Hugs Juls

Marga50 said...

Wat een mooie kaart heb je gemaakt. Bedankt voor je deelname bij IAMC. Groetjes Marga.

Fru Larsen said...

So cute!

Anne said...

Another gorgeous card! I so admire your artistic abilities! What stamp did you use to stamp around the edges?

Paty said...

Absolutely gorgeous Chris! I don't know how you add such amazing color!

Christina C. said...

I just adore your creations and this one is no exception.....beautiful work of art!!! Soooo festive!

Camilla said...

Stunning card Chris!! The tree looks so real!:) Your coloring is out of this world!! <3
Thank you for joining MDUC this week.
Merry Christmas!
Hugs, Camilla

Suzie Q said...

really captures the feel of christmas x
hugs
Suzie Qx

Sandy said...

Now this is lovely - truly lovely! I do love those poinsettias! Beautifully done Chris!
Sandy