Birch card

Birch card
Originally uploaded by taikasatama

I just can't stop making christmas cards even though I promised myself I'd print them out this year.

So, here we go... I got this idea of painting a large piece of cardstock with a repetitive scenery of trees and the lake and then cutting out smaller pieces of it to make cards. I also wanted to try a very simplistic style with painting, large and quick brush strokes and not too much attention to details.

The text, as you can guess, says 'merry christmas' in Finnish. I'm not sure about the composition on this one, the whole cutting cards out of a larger piece of painting sort of threw me off. In a way I like it, in a way I think it is way too centered.