Spruced Up Again

 

When I made up a card using this Divided Fir tree from Gummiapan a few weeks ago, I cut and coloured a few others at the same time!  I was going to try mounting it on a piece of patterned paper to change it up a bit but after trying out several options returned to the plain white embossed background.  I did however want to add more red and cut a whole lot of hearts and stuck them on the tree (I bought a cheap border die from Action and I knew it would come in handy for just this purpose).  I die cut the Joy (WPlus9) from red card stock as well (lots of snippets of this red lying about on my work area) and added glossy accents to all the hearts and sentiment for some shine. 

I mounted it on a red base but wasn't 100% happy with it.  I tried these photo corners  (Tim Holtz Movers and Shakers ATC) in silver which seemed like a good idea at the time but then I needed to tie in the silver on the corners with the rest of the card and added a silver heart hanging from the J - this area needed something anyway.  It's really too busy now but I'm sure one of my friends will appreciate it!  I added glossy accents to the silver (I had to - this glitter card stock was shedding badly) - some imps seem to have hidden all my silver things - first my silver embossing powder and now all my silver card stock and this glitter card stock was all I could find!  

Here are the challenges I'm entering - please click on the subtitle (not the photo) to follow the challenge links!

Colour Throwdown Challenge #621 
 you see now why I used silver!

Just Add Ink Challenge #533 - Another reason I added "S" for Silver

TGIF Challenge #292

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Pixie's Snippet Challenge #391 

Jingle Belles Challenge - inspired by this banner

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Hugs and stay safe,

Kate