Christmas Tree Truck Card

 

Christmas Tree Truck

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
Your branches green delight us
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
Your branches green delight us
They are green when summer days are bright
They are green when winter snow is white
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
Your branches green delight us

I love Christmas time! It is my favorite holiday for so many reasons. I do live in Idaho, so we do get snow, which is so beautiful when it covers everything in a white blanket and snowflakes are falling down against the dark sky and everything is quiet. I love spending time with my family. Watching Christmas movies, hot chocolate, Christmas music, family game time, warm blankets, giving gifts, lots of time to paint and craft, and celebrating our Savior's, Jesus Christ's, birth! 

When I saw this project on Let's Make Art, I wanted to paint it immediately! It speaks to my Christmas child heart! Then when I saw Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog's theme: Transport it. I knew I needed to paint this truck in the miniature and make a memorable Christmas card!

 

Painting this truck transported me right to Christmas time even though it is 80 degrees outside with 0% chance of snow! haha! My family has been picking out a real pine tree from a local business that gets them from Montana for many, many years. We all load up in the truck, drive for a bit, go through about 5-10 trees, narrowing it down to 2-3 trees, finally down to the last 2 trees side by side, then we finally pick it "the Christmas Tree", pay for it, and load it up into the truck and drive home. We decorate the tree and house, listen to Christmas music, and eat snacks while we decorate. 

Below are the pictures of the Christmas Tree Truck card and painting.  Keep scrolling and I will share a bit on how I made this Christmas card and the products I used. 

Here is the completed card:

The Products I used for painting the Truck were:

• Dandelion Co Liquid watercolor paints
• Colors were: Dandelion Yellow, Black, Payne's Grey, Leaf green, Evergreen Green, Red, and Magenta
• Size 2 round Princeton Heritage paint brush
• Graphite paper
• Canson XL Watercolor Paper 140 lb. Cut to a 4x6 size
• Tombow Fine liner Black Pen

The Tutorial is on Let's Make Art YouTube Page and is super easy to follow along with. As with art, I made this truck my own and didn't paint it exactly like she does. But that is the beauty of art. You make it your own. Paint it, craft it, make it like you want to! There is nothing wrong with that. 

Once I completed the painting, I set it aside to dry and began working on the card. 

I used a green cardstock card base cut to make a 4" x 6" front.

I then picked out an Ombre green and red and white striped paper from Jesse Petersen's paper collection volume 1.

I then cut the strips so they fit on the front of the card like I wanted. I then tore only the green paper and placed it on top of the red paper and glued it down. 

I then picked out "collect beautiful moments" sticker from Tim Holtz's idea-ology METALLIC Sticker Book found on Simon Says Stamp.

Here are more close ups of the front of the card. 

For the inside of the card I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink cube Rustic Wilderness and a blending brush. I just brushed around the edges to give it a bit of a wreath and evergreen feel. 

...And that's the card! Easy, simple, fun, and magical!

Hopefully you were transported to a magical Christmas moment, or time. I hope you feel inspired to make a card or even look through the old family photo albums and/or scrapbooks and relive that special moment.  

As always you can check out my Instagram Page for more projects and ideas!

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" ~ Pablo Picasso

See you on the next post! 

Sabra