Celebrate the Season 2025: "Sunlight Through the Pines" Rocky Mountain Christmas Card with Light by Leigh

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"Sunlight Through the Pines"

Rocky Mountain Christmas

Card by Val

 

I'm here today Celerating the Season with a wonderful card that has a magical hidden light element featuring both the Sunlight Through the Pines and Aspenglow digi stamps from my new "Rocky Mountain Christmas" collection as well as Pastel Blizzard decorative paper from the Poinsettia and Holly Christmas 2023 Collection.

 

 

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I combined the magical Aspenglow landscape with the Pastel Green decorative digi paper, which is one of the the four designs included in the Pastel Blizzard decorative digi paper pack, and printed it out.

 

  

 

I used a large die from a Spellbinders Deckle nesting die set to die cut out the scene then applied metallic gold Spectrum Noir pigment ink to the panel edges.  I added the glint of "Aspenglow" sunlight to the scene with yellow and orange Prismacolor pencil crayons.

 

 

  

 I then die cut the scallop edged mat layer with a Spellbinders nesting die from pale silver Crafter's Companion glitter cardstock.  For the magical "Aspenglow" sunlight effect for the sun above the Rocky Mountains I then cut a half circle into the mat that lines up with the sun in the scene for the light bulb placement before adhering the image panel to the mat.

 

 

I coloured the Sunlight Through the Pines sprig digitally and printed out two of them.

 

 

 I fussy cut out the sprigs leaving a narrow white border around the images.

 

 

 Then applied Crystal Stickles glitter glue to the Aspenglow landscape scene and the pine cones for lots of pretty sparkle.

 

  

For the background layer I embossed a white cardstock panel using a 5 x 7 inch Crafter's Companion 3D embossing folder called Sparkling Snowflake then distressed the edges with a Tim Holtz distressing tool.

 

 

Next I matted the embossed panel onto a slightly larger mat layer cut from the same pale silver glitter cardstock and adhered them to a side fold card made from heavy weight white cardstock.

  

 I then eyeballed the placement for the main image panel and the light effect and punched a hole through the folded card base, the embossed background layer and the glitter mat layer with a Tim Holtz pokey tool.

 

  

 For the light element I used a mini button battery dew drop light string and cut it leaving only one light bulb on the string.  I then threaded the wire through the hole from the inside of the folded card, lined the light bulb up with the sun and adhered the light and the wire to the back of the main image panel with tape.  I then adhered the main panel to the front of the card with white foam tape.

 

  

 I then adhered the pine cone sprigs to the card with a combo of foam tape and glue to allow for the height variations.  I embellished the top sprig with mint green and white sparkly eyelash fiber which I tied in a bow.

 

 

 Next I die cut the "Merry Christmas" sentiment with a Crafter's Companion die out of the same pale silver cardstock and again out of white cardstock and adhered the die cuts together to create a chunkier sentiment.  I then adhered the sentiment to the bottom edge of the main panel with glue.

 

 

 Flip the switch on the light box and viola....the card glows prettily in the evening light!

 

 

 I then decorated the inside of the card.

Here you can see the placement of the light box on the back of the card front which I secured with tape and glue dots.

   

I used Crafter's Companion cardstock to cut the inside panel and a Marvy decorative corner punch on the right hand side corners for an elegant touch.  

 

  

To complete my card I die cut the "Happy New Year" sentiment by Scrapbook.com from the same pale silver cardstock and white cardstock to create the chunky sentiment.
 

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