Dies R Us: Serene Winter Scene

Dec 24, 2017

Serene Winter Scene

For those celebrating Christmas, tonight is the BIG night. You only have about 6 hours until the children wake up & you had better have put everything together! My parents used to hold a HUGE open house on Christmas Eve - upwards of 200 people in, out, and around the house. I woke up many a Christmas Day with strange people sleeping on the living room couch - it might sound weird but it was fun. My family always collected strays - be it people or animals. My mother tells of the time I woke up at 6 am to get my gifts and she had literally laid her head down 15 minutes prior - hehehehehehe! OK, enough nostalgia. But that is what this card brings out in me. A feeling of times before the insanity of social media, when you knew you'd be cared for, no matter what and that our country was truly a force with which all others had to reckon. So, on to my card:

What I Used to Make This Card:
White Card Base
Stitched Circle Tress, Memory Box, #99843 {or, Stitched Circle Cabin}
Stitched Village, Memory Box, #99891 {or Stitched Cabin, Stitched Tree}
Nesting Circle, Darice, #2014-74 {Tutti has plenty of Nesting Circles}
"Cloudy" Vellum
White Glitter Card
Pale Blue Card

The card is very easy to make, not so easy to photograph, but carry on. The first thing I did was cut the Stitched Circle Tree out of white glitter card. I then cut it out again using the Nested circles, so I had an actual circle instead of just a die cut on paper. After putting the cut on my card blank, I really felt it needed just a smidge more something. I think the cloudy vellum adds a softness to the card; of course, you can use anything you choose - I just didn't want the background to compete in any way with the trees. The vellum was cut with the same circle I used to cut the stitched die out of the glitter white card.

If you click this pic, you can see the
dimension and the sparkle

I attached the vellum to the cut and, while it certainly looked serene {the look I was going for - after all, it is Christmas Eve!}, I still felt it was too blah. I love white on white cards and I just don't seem to able to mix whites effectively. My cards never look like their cards do! Ah, maybe someday - I'll keep at it! Back to my card. To add just a weeny little something, I cut out the three houses from the Stitched Village die; first I used white card, too dull, then Kraft card, too obvious, then this very pale blue I found. Perfect! The little house nestled perfectly where I wanted it. I truly adore this little CAS card, I hope you like it as well.