Reindeer Tree....

Hello & Happy Tuesday everyone!

I've got my weekly Holiday Challenge card
ready to go and share with you -

As most of you already know... I went to
a Holiday Card Class about a week & a half ago
and we made about 8 or 9 holiday cards -
I'm not sure where the designs came from
so I can't give credit to whoever designed them
but I will say I altered them to work for me -

My friend made them as kits for everyone to make 
and made them fairly simple to create because she
has a lot of friends who prefer basic, simple card designs
and I do too, to some extent, but the cards needed
something more for me - So I'll show you the card
she made and then the one I Altered to work for me ---

Here is her card design that I had to create --

Sorry about the glare - I took the photo's of each card in their
cellophane bags -- Now let me start by saying this
card has some cute images on it - the biggest issue
I had with it was the size!! Her card measured at 5 x 5 1/2
which is an ODD size to me - Her card also opened up
like a Tri-Fold - the trees & deer are attached to the
bottom of her card and open that way with the
floral designer paper showing thru.... I like the idea of it!

So this is what I created with the pieces ---

First, I changed the cardbase to be an A2 size card (4 1/4 x 5 1/2).... 

I like her tri-fold idea but decided NOT to use it - What I did was add

Acetate to mine - I cut off my white card base front leaving about

2"s hanging over, and then cut an additional 1" strip for the lower

portion of my card front - Then I cut a Piece of Acetate to fit the front 

of my card - So now, it was see through.... which was neat -

But then I thought? Hmmm If I place the floral pattern on the inside

to show through.... I won't have much room to write a little

something inside - That bothered me - so I added the Floral pattern

paper to the acetate window and then covered it up with another piece

of white cardstock (4 1/4 x 5 1/2) - 

so it looked clean on the inside without anything showing -

Then I proceeded to decorate the front with the green

pattern paper and colored the images with my Zig Brush pens

Since my card size was smaller than hers, I didn't need 2 trees

I also eliminated the twine because I thought

the card was busy enough --

I used my Clear wink of Stella pen on the

tree & bulbs on the deer, just to add some sparkle!

I had some stitched banner dies, so I used them instead

of plain banner cuts and added Nuvo drops & Clear gems 

I really like how mine turned out!

Well... I've got more to share with you - But for now

I hope you ALL Have a Fabulous DAY!

Big HUGS!!!

Theresa