Happy Thanksgiving

I am wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday

with your family and friends.

The SCS sketch challenge yesterday was a fun layout to work with. I took the opportunity to use Happy Holidays designer paper by Fancy Pants. Many of the colors in the pad are very untraditional for Christmas but I love how bright and fun they are.  I thought this Rubbernecker Tree with Snow image was perfectly mod to go with this paper.  I stamped it with Adirondack Brights Citrus on watercolor paper several times and embossed with clear embossing powder. I painted the trees with Adirondack Brights-Sail Boat Blue, Watermelon, Sunshine Yellow and Raspberry. These colors matched perfectly with the paper. Sadly, I wasn't sharp enough to cut my circle deign layer in an area that showed lots of the blue circles in the pattern so you may wonder why I picked a blue for one of the tree layers. I cut and paper pieced all tree layers a couple of times each to make the tree a real focal point of the card. I am a very traditional Christmas color girl but I really enjoyed stepping out of my "box" and making a bright, fresh project.

When I do a layered paper piecing project I want the pieces to be more stable that they may be if I use regular foam dimensionals. I use the point of my paper piercer as a tool to pick up two or three glue dots at a time and then ball them together to create adhesive dimensionals and place them in key areas. This method holds each piece very securely in place. The top portion of each layer was attached with a single layer of adhesive so it would be tucked in under the piece above it and the glue dots were placed along the lower edge of each layer to pop up. This creates fun dimension and interest for the tree.

Don't eat too much!!!!!!!