Good Thursday morning. Today I am celebrating a “Ten Year Blog Anniversary” milestone. My Very First Blog Post ever was published ten years ago on November 9 2007. It is amazing to look back on my original post and to browse through the years to see all the twists and turns my paper crafting style has taken. This will be my 2206th post and I am honored to have had 7,406,868 page views to date. I thought it would be fun to celebrate my anniversary by giving a blog candy gift for each year as a thank you to you for following my blog. You can see more details about the blog candy below.
I love making snowy winter scenes for holiday cards. Today’s project was made using the Impression Obsession Fir Tree, Small Fir Tree, Evergreen Trees and Sun and Moon. The frame was using the My Favorite Things Pierced Square Frames. I secured the stamps and cardstock in my MISTI and stamped using Peeled Paint ink. I stamped three trees on the card base and then stamped several random trees. I placed my dies over the stamped random trees and die cut them. I wanted the die cut trees to have the same pattern as the background trees. In the end it didn’t matter much because I covered them so much with white embossing paste and glitter.
Once the background trees were stamped I heat set them and then applied Tumbled Glass ink to the sky area using an ink blending tool. I applied white embossing paste to the stamped and die cut trees by lightly tapping it on with my finger and then sprinkled with the clear glitter. I also applied the paste to the ground area on the tree background and sprinkled with glitter.
I attached the tree background to the back of the frame using thin strips of mounting tape. I attached the green layer behind the framed scene with ATG adhesive and then attached to the white card base using ATG adhesive. I secured the die cut trees in place using strips of mounting tape. I used a tiny tipped brush to apply white dots of white paint to the sky area to create falling snow and then finished by adding one star in the sky. This is really so much prettier in person than it shows in the photos. That seems to happen so often.
Here a the projects from my first post.
Stampin” Up! Lovely as a Tree. Lovely as a Tree is one of my favorite SU sets and I will never let it go.
Stampin’ Up! Punch Pals
All you need to do to qualify for one of my ten blog candy gifts is leave a comment telling me how your paper crafting style has changed over time. You will have until Tuesday, Nov 14th at 5:00 pm to comment and the winners will be announced on my Wednesday blog post. Here are photos of the ten gifts. Some are brand new and some have been gently used. The winners will be selected by Random.org and the gifts will be awarded in the same order. Good luck!
Thank you so much for coming by and for ten years of following my blog. I appreciate it more than you know.
Card size: 5.50” x 4.25”
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