SIMON SAYS STAMP MONDAY CHALLENGE - GUEST DESIGNER - TREES.

It's my final week as Guest Designer for Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge and it's been a real privilege to be part of this fabulous group again.  Our theme this week is Trees and I apologise in advance if my Christmas card is too soon for you in October but I couldn't resist using the wonderful Watercolor Trees by Tim Holtz for my card.

I started off with creating a background for my card with some Distress Oxide Inks in Frayed Burlap, Festive Berries and Antique Linen.    I then added some of Tim's Christmas collage paper as my background focus.

I layered some of Tim's Christmas Large Collage Strips to the side.  I loved the image of the lady with the Christmas Tree.  

My tree was stamped with Distress Ink and spritzed before stamping to give it a real water colour feel.  I used Peeled Paint for the first stamping and Rustic Wilderness for the second stamping.  The red details are Distress Ink Festive Berries with a touch of sparkle.  The sentiment is part of the same stamp set and it was what drew me to the set years ago as I had been looking for a lovely sentiment that just said O Christmas Tree.  I edged it with some Antique Linen Distress Oxide and Ground Espresso - my favourite brown ink.  I added a touch of cheesecloth from my stash behind the tag. 

I found the perfect sentiment in Tim's Christmas Sticker Book.  

These are the products I used:

Tim Holtz Stamps 

Watercolor Trees

Tim Holtz Ideaology

Christmas Collage Paper 

Christmas Sticker Book Noel 

Christmas Large Collage Strips 

Distress Inks

Peeled Paint 

Rustic Wilderness 

Festive Berries 

Distress Oxides

Frayed Burlap 

Festive Berries 

Antique Linen 

The lovely people over at Simon Says Stamp are offering one lucky participant a $25 gift voucher to spend at Simon Says Stamp.  A great opportunity to treat yourself to some new goodies. 

I'm adding this into the following:

AAA Christmas Cards - Traditional Christmas

Girlz Creative Christmas - AG

Peace on Earth Christmas