Chocolate Tree

Hi there crafty friends!  Remember the all white micro beaded Christmas tree card last week?  Well this was how it started.  When I first received the new Christmas dies, I cut the holiday tree out of white card first thing.  I just wanted to see what it looked like straight away.  I fell in love with the negative piece right away and made this card with it.  The white card from last week was where the actual tree diecut ended up!  I didn't have any Christmas papers at that point so I decided to do the next best thing and that was to make a chocolate tree (well chocolate is Christmassy, right?)  I found this yummy brown paper in my stash that has a tiny pattern on it.  It was just what I wanted (sorry, I haven't a clue where the paper is from, though).  I mounted my negative piece with foam pieces on the back for dimension.  I used some swirlie pearls that started on the upper corner, went down on to the brown background paper and finished in the lower corner.  I matted the piece with brown card and placed it on a larger piece of the same decorative paper with another brown mat.  I finished it off with a pierced edge and a double bow tied from the brown silky crush ribbon and a Dazzler centre.  I couldn't even put a sentiment on it as I loved the simplicity of it.  If you can't bare the thought of it not being a "Christmas" card in the traditional sense, find yourself some tartan paper and you are all set!  All for now, Sue x