Christmas Window

I took a little while last night and made this card. I was trying to think of a starting point, and thought I'd like to use a die. I really don't have a lot of non-standard shapes, but realized that I got this Spellbinders (at least, I'm pretty sure it's Spellbinders) window die quite a while ago and hadn't used it yet. Now I have:)

Then I had to figure out what to put on the outside to look out at. I decided this pine tree from Stampin' Up!'s "Lovely as a Tree" would work nicely. I inked it up with Old Olive ink, added some brown on the trunk with a marker (which you can't see) and then "thumped" on some darker green with a marker. Then I sponged it with some very light blue ink. I trimmed it down and glued it behind the window. I thought this striped paper from a very old SU matstack would work, looking rather like wallpaper. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I used Sahara Sand ink to stamp it. 

I'll link it up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. This week's challenge is "Anything Goes." (Just found out I was a top three from last week!)

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!