52 CCT January Color Challenge

 

Hi friends--welcome to my blog.   It's time for another card using the 52 CCT card color challenge from Andreja L.  I must say that I've never made a Christmas card using these colors.  I'm pretty traditional for the most part.   However I decided to give it a go!  A very nice hotel in the down town area where I live, sponsors a parade of Christmas trees every year.   The trees are decorated by businesses, schools, churches and lots of other groups and it doesn't cost to view them and they are always so interesting!  It's an anything goes type of event!  My neighbor's tree is gorgeous, she uses all red and clear on this tree each year that's displayed in her front window.   Every Christmas season it is beautifully ablaze for all the local traffic to enjoy.    So I decided to use these colors and create a card with trees using Honey Bee die cuts and paper from a Honey Bee  Honey Bee Autumn collection.   To add texture to the trees I used a crackle embossing folder.     The CS is cherry cobbler from SU, and it's embellished with red sequins from a thrift store.    I ended up with a glitch,  the top of the center tree came off because of the texturing and when I cut another tree, I grabbed the wrong die cut and it was a lot bigger and some of the original tree shows behind it, but while card makers will notice, most other people won't.      It was fun to make, the colors worked beautifully for my whimsical look!    Thanks for stopping by!         Smiles,   Kathy