MCV110 - Peace through a Winter Window

Here's my card for this week's Muse: ChristmasVisions, where our inspiration is from Cornelia:

I actually made a card that would fit this inspiration perfectly a while ago, with a galaxy sky.

So this time I went in a differen direction and focused on Cornelia's:
-dark trees
-white 'dots' in the sky (hers are stars, my are snow)
-sloped landscpe
-peace sentiment

I really had intended to make a dark blue night sky, but I fell in love with the monochrome look of all that gray!

I used the new Essentials by Ellen Winter Window die along with the Snowfall Backdrop cover plate. I finished with a solid (retired - sorry) sentiment from MFT, stamped on one of the off cuts from the window die. Clever, right?

Here's another card where I only used the off cuts from the window frame, along with one of the tree dies that comes with the set.

For this one, I coloured two of the rectangles with red Copics. I took a sentiment from Mondo Holly, and split it up and stamped it on the other two rectangles.

I die cut 2 trees and glued them to the red rectangles before coating them with Stickles for sparkle.

I cut a square out of black cardstock and arranged the 'windows' on it. I love the geometric feel of this arrangement.

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