Crafting Christmas Magic with the Holiday Express

I know that it is Saturday today and that this is my third post for this week, but I had to share this project. While recently looking at various challenge blogs, I came across the My Time to Craft Christmas challenge blog. The current challenge requires the Christmas card to have a train in it. Well, I did not need any further encouragement to break out my Spellbinders Holiday Express die set.

This card sort of came together backwards. Starting with the train, I die cut all the pieces and assembled the engine and the two carriages to create the Holiday Express. I then created the background of the card which was blended Distress Oxide inks splattered with white and gold watercolor. While that was set aside to dry, I cut out the church, the two houses, the trees and the other winter village accessories with the Honey Bee Stamps Winter Village die set. I created the snow banks with another Honey Bee die set, namely the Horizon Slimline Borders die set. A little bit of Oxide ink was added to the edges of the snow banks.

I assembled all the pieces to create the church and the two houses and once the scene was created, I added my train to the front and positioned the gifts in the carriages. I completed the card with the “Merry Christmas” sentiment cut out of white card stock and out of white glitter card stock glued together.

There is always something charming about a little train in a Christmas scene. I think it awakens the romance in all of us.

Entered into the My Time to Craft Christmas Challenge #97 Theme of Train(s)
Entered into the The Daring Cardmakers “Wheely good fun” challenge
Entered into the FarmQuest Country Christmas Challenges blog #13

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