Trees for two

 and two for trees, me for you and you for me... 

Well, maybe that doesn't work as a song, but here are my Trees for this month's Twofers, which is what made it pop into my head. 

The first card is a Christmas scene. 

If you go out at daybreak on Christmas morning, you may just be as lucky as this family and spot Santa heading back to the North Pole after a hard night's work delivering presents. Don't try it this year though as he's probably going to have to do 14 days' quarantine between each country so I reckon his journey is going to take the best part of 7 years! 

I punched a circle in scrap paper for the sun and dabbed in orange ink through it, then removed the scrap paper and using a piece of Cut'n'Dry foam, firmly pulled out the ink each side of the sun to create a winter sunrise effect. Then I stamped and heat embossed  the sentiment in metallic gold. And I still maintain that heat embossing, especially in gold, is real, actual magic. 

Then I placed the card in the Misti and assembled the scene, using a set of stamps from an issue of Creative Stamping a year or two back then stamped it with Versafine ink, stamping several times to  get  good clear silhouettes. Finally I used a black pen to continue the ground below the trees and crate a couple of hills. 

I am sharing this card with 

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Black, Orange and Gold 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes  

Jingle Belles - Baby it's Gold Outside 

Make my Monday - Christmas in September 

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Now, a tree is for life, not just for Christmas, and that row of fir trees would work at any time of year, so I used it again on a much more autumnal card. 

The squirrel is stamped using an image from the latest issue of Creative Stamping. I didn't have a single ink in exactly the shade I wanted, so keeping the stamp in the Misti I stamped him repeatedly in several different shades of red and brown,  always inking the stamp a bit patchily with each colour so there was some variation in his fur. Then I masked the image and stamped the trees repeatedly to form a forest background. 

I am sharing this with 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies  - anything goes 

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Finally the two cards together

I am sharing this pair of cards with 

Twofer Card Challenge - Trees 

Stamping Sensations - The Great Outdoors