Hi, crafty friends. I have a simple winter/holiday card to share today that I created for the Kort & Godt galleri blog. The title of this blog post and the sentiment on today’s card don’t really have English translations. The sentiment is from a song called “It’s snowing, it’s snowing”. It’s actually from a Winnie the Pooh song, but to my knowledge, this song only exists in Norwegian. The Norwegian translator (Thorbjørn Egner, accomplished children’s author himself) of the originial A.A. Milne books made the stories his own and wrote small songs that he added to the stories (he did this in his own work, too). The song in the sentiment is from the first chapter of Ole Brumm og vennene hans (Winnie the Pooh and his friends), published in 1955.

I die cut a tree nine times from three different shades of green patterned paper. The two lighter ones are both from Maja Design, while the dark one’s from Kaisercraft. This die is pretty small and perfect for scraps. There’s also a die in the sets that cuts the trunk, but I decided not to use that for this card.

I sprinkled on Chunky white embossing enamel from Stampendous to each of the trees and melted the granules from the back to make snowy trees. I then used three different thicknesses of foam tape behind the trees for varying dimension.

I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment onto a black cardstock strip (True Black cardstock from Papertrey Ink), added a couple of more layers of cardstock behind it for dimension and glued it on top of two of my trees.

A little bit of story time to finish today (for anyone who understands Norwegian):

“Det snør, det snør, tiddeli bom..”
“Tiddeli – hva for noe,” spurte Nøff.
“Bom,” sa Brumm. “Det er der for at sangen skal bli god å synge. – Det er det det gjør, tiddeli bom..”
“Jeg syns nettopp du sa snør,” sa Nasse Nøff.
“Jamen, det var før,” sa Ole Brumm.
“Før tiddeli bommet?” spurte Nøff.
“Nøff,” sa Brumm, “det var et annet tiddelibom.”

Kort & Godt products used:

Die 323 – Diverse jul

M-428