Trendy Trees

 My mission to make a few Christmas cards each month continues this week with 6 cards created with some new goodies from Taylored Expressions.  This time it’s using the Trendy Trees suite comprising a background stamp, die-cut and layering stencils.

I started by stamping the Trendy Tree Farm Background stamp with Versamark and heat embossed using various metallic powders on white card and white on craft card.

The first card was completed by using the cutting plate to create little tree ‘windows’ for the embossed trees to peek through.  The sentiment is from Waffle Flower Cozy Holiday Sentiments and the small tree and snowflake stamps, also from that set, were stamped in the same colour as the card to give some tone-on-tone pattern without detracting from the trees.

Gold embossed trees with a Bermuda Bay frame on top

 For the rest of the panels, I added colour to the trees using 3 of the 4 tree stencils (the 4^th stencil is the tree trunks).

To begin, I stuck to greens but then ventured out, adding pinks and then trying out a blue and grey colour scheme with the silver trees.

Here are the finished white embossed trees.  Unfortunately, the pink ink stained the heat embossing so I’d use metallic embossing with staining colours in future.

Old Olive, Garden Green and Shaded Spruce inks with white pigent ink on the left and Rococo Rose and Lovely Lipstick on the right

 The blue and grey one has a cool, modern feel to it.

Seaside Spray, Pacific Point, Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate and Basic Gray inks on Pacific Point card with silver embossing

For the white panels, I added a die cut over the top of one as I’d smeared some ink when buffing the ink off the panel.  Unlike the turquoise one above, I made this panel a shade narrower which allowed the white panel behind to create a frame.