Christmas bells are ringing!

Hi friends!

Christmas in August?  

Yes, please!

There is officially 133 more days until Christmas!

Just in case you didn't know :)

  

On Mondays, I have the joy of posting a card at The Project Bin's blog,

always filled with wonderful card inspiration ♥

Today's card is part of challenge ...

I looked at it, loved it, and said sure, why not!

While I can't say a lot about it until after August 15th, 

I can show you!

This technique is called finger smudging or finger "painting",

using oil pastels or pan pastels and just smooshing around.

In this case, since I used a warm palette,

I wanted to create a forest of trees ... without using trees!

With the warm colors of the setting sun as a backdrop,

twinkling snow in the forefront,

I decided to create a unique and non-traditional card ♥

In order to create the 'trees', I smooshed upwards :)

After using curvy dies to make the snow drifts,

I stamped a sentiment from Joyful Song right onto the paper. 

I must mention ...

 this. was. lots. of. FUN!!

If you'd like to give this a try,

you can find the tutorial I used here.

You can find this wonderful stamp set in TPB shop here,

or here's a quick view:

 If you like to try fun things and new techniques in your crafting,

this is highly entertaining and you achieve so many different results!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly