Hello! Christina here, and today I’m sharing a winter card featuring the whimsical Block Print Alpine Trees. These trees make a great focal point all on their own, which I did for this card, but they would work well for scene building too. I chose the simple additions of a few snowflakes and a stitching detail around the outside of the card to really let the trees take center stage. Let’s get started!
My first step was to die-cut the components for the Alpine Trees. I chose two shades of green cardstock and added shading to the pieces using small blending brushes and darker coordinating inks before assembling them. To customize the trees, I shortened one of the smaller trees by trimming off the bottom layer of boughs and inlaid the small cutouts in the larger tree with mint green cardstock. I also die-cut the tree trunks again, this time from brown cardstock, and added them to the trees.
Next, I die-cut the largest Scallop Pinpoint Ring from the top center of a piece of 4.25 x 5.5 inch warm gray cardstock, saving the center round piece, and then attached the panel to a top-fold card base. After that, I die-cut the ring again from plain white cardstock and used the outer white ring to frame the die-cut circle on the gray cardstock panel and then die-cut a snowy border from the center white round piece. With the pieces ready, I built a little winter scene inside the circle of the gray cardstock panel by inlaying the round gray piece first and then the snowy border piece. To finish the scene, I added the whimsical trees and secured them with foam squares.
To wrap things up, I die-cut the sentiment and attached it under my scene before adding a scattering of snowflakes die-cut from plain white cardstock. The finishing detail was to add stitching along the edges of the card panel with a white gel pen.
Thank you so much for reading about the whimsical winter card I created using the Block Print Alpine Trees! Happy crafting!
