I got carried away in my creative mode and made a whole sheet of woven paper strips. I chose from my stash of Christmas papers and then added greens and reds from my other collections too. I started by adhering the set of horizontal strips to a piece of tape. Then I wove strips into them vertically until I had a letter sized sheet. I added tape on the back to secure the pieces in place. I trimmed the sheet into triangles to simulate trees. I did have some loose pieces both on the front and the back so I added dots of white glue to secure them in place. I have over a dozen trees. I only used these two this time but have set aside the others for Christmas cards in 2022 as I still plan on making card monthly. I chose two backgrounds from my stash and embossed one with birch trees (SU) and snowy dots (SU). I positioned my trees and stitched them to my background using dark green thread in my sewing machine. Really like that look! I added a trunk to the first one and a snow bank to the second one. They both got large confetti stars - gold on the first one and silver on the secon one. I wanted to add a little bird to the birch trees. I bought a stamp and die set which I thought would work quite well for this purpose. In the end, the bird is a bit big for A2 cards and the stamping in black made it too dark. So I cut one without the stamping and added little features using a fine black marker which was much better. I added it with 3D foam tape. I glued my large elements to coordinating cards to finish them off. Therese
