Blue Christmas Pines

Hello, Happy Friday!

I've really whooshed in here today, carried by gale force winds and washed down by buckets of rain. You know we desperately need it, but now, sadly, lots of folks are dealing with flooding, power outrages, and downed trees. When it rains, it pours. Both US coasts are being dumped on and I'm hoping you are all weathering okay where you are.

I've made a couple of clean and very, very simple turkoise cards for your visual pleasure. First up:

I adore these tree dies from Memory Box. For this card, I cut out the trees using the Pine Border Background die, planning to use the sparkly blue die cut on a white card base. Then, out of the corner of my eye (which, yippie, I can now out of see!), I saw a black scrap of card on my desk so I handed them both to Hammy to play with. He, being a small-brained hamster, after all, simply off-set the die cut on top of the scrap to create a shadow. I liked it so much I replaced the scrap with a black card base and wallah! EZPZ. QACAS.

I was pleased with it, pure as it was with all that sparkly blue white space, but then Hammy handed me a silver glimmery star to see what that would look like hanging from the northwest corner of the pine forest:

They're both pwetty. Pweference?

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Next, I made this:

Remember the other day I showed you a card I made with a flourish die cut over a rainbow of Gelato watercolors? For this similar card (also using some of that lush paper from Anita), I used the Memory Box Pine Border Outline die and inlaid a blue wash of colors using the color inspiration from this week's Less Is More challenge.

They look like ballerinas on their tippy toes, wearing white gloves and holding hands.

I don't care what the hamster says, I really love this card just as it is without any additional stars, bling, or sediment. Don't you wish you could run your finger over that picture? Or am I the only one who actually reaches for the monitor when something touchable appears? You know, like Ryan on my last post. Settle down.

Challenges

• AAA Cards, where the theme is "Blue, Blue, Blue Christmas Challenge." 

• Less Is More Color Week. (I'd like to thank Chrissie and the lovely ladies of the Design Team for the honor of being Showcased last week!)
• Pals Paper Arts (PPA231), which is also a color challenge this week.

Please click on the challenge links for details on rules, sponsors, and prizes.

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