Festive Friday

A few weekends ago I spent a thoroughly enjoyable few hours watching Tim Holtz YouTube videos and making lots of backgrounds…

Yes lots of backgrounds! Well this card came as a result of picking out one of the backgrounds and then rummaging through the Christmas stash to find the rub ons … and well it was such fun to put together!

I love the colour combo on this background … aged mahogany, broken china and faded jeans. After inking up the background heavily I sprayed water through a stencil which lifted the ink to create the circle pattern in the background.

I decided to go overboard and use a lot of the rub ons to create the background. I know this might seem excessive but I never think to grab them normally so it was good to get a fair few used up at once – plus I liked the look of the mixed fonts and little decorative elements.

The focal feature of the tree is actually three die cuts which again have been in the stash a long time. I stacked them up for dimension and added a coat of sparkly embossing powder to give it texture and shine/sparkle!

I added a doodled border and then mounted it onto a Merry Merlot cardstock. Whilst not a perfect colour match I thought it went well with the colour of the background.

Decided against any other kind of embellishment or sentiment as the card felt done at this point!

Happy crafting!

Catherine