“Peace on earth… goodwill to all” is the inspiration for my card today. I wanted to create a peaceful winter woods setting for this quaint, church made of fieldstone. I’m using the following Honey Bee Stamps products:
I cut two sets of Pine Trees and some evergreen branches from the Lovely Layers: Winter Greenery – Honey Cuts out of white cardstock and splattered the pine trees with lavender, blues, and pink watercolor paints. I also die cut the church from the Winter Village set from a warm gray cardstock. I used Copics in W4, W3 and W1 to create the stony exterior. I added window frames and doors cut from a darker gray cardstock and white snow on the roof. I backed the windows with black cardstock.
For the background, I sponged on Distress Oxide Inks in Unchartered Mariner, Black Soot, Milled Lavender and Speckled Egg. I splattered water on top and lifted some of the ink. Next, I used my fan paintbrush and Dr. Ph Marten’s Bleed Proof White Paint to create the white streaks down the ink for a wintery look. The streaks look almost like very distant birch tree trunks.
Next, I layered the cut trees over the inked background, using some of the evergreen branches as the backdrop trees and the pine trees as foreground trees. I nestled the church in between the trees. I used some Scrapbook Adhesives .25 Foam Squares in white to attach two of the foreground trees and the church to make them stand out a bit.
I added rhinestones to the pine trees and Liquid Applique snow to the church and the branches. Lastly, I foiled and die cut the word, “peace” from the Foil Script: Holiday Hot Foil Plate and Honey Cuts and attached it to a few hand cut snowy hills at the base of the card.
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