12 tags of Christmas FJ style #8

Hello everyone, thanks for dropping in!
Well I am in full Christmas Card making mode and decided to use Linda's tag 8 as my inspiration for this card, though you'll be pushed to recognize that, but I will explain in a moment. Here is the card:

Linda's original can be found HERE, very different indeed!!

Still there were some bits I took inspiration from, foremost the way she did the background. Linda links to a brilliant tutorial by Tammy Tuterow that she followed, and I did the same, only using different stamps and colours, but following exactly the same steps and I have to say I love it.
Here is a picture of mine, before I did anything else:

The other bit of inspiration was the stamp set she used for her vocal image, - I used the same set, only a different stamp. I also used another Tim Holtz set, the Holiday Joy Framelits die set. I just love the trees in this set and I stamped them in Iced Spruce DI. Because of the embossed background you get a sort of mottled effect when you stamp over it, which I quite like for this particular look.

It's like a kind of snowy effect.

I stamped my vocal stamp in Cobalt Archival and clear embossed it, I just love this stamp and dream of one day doing a sledge ride in a sledge pulled by horses like this.

I used some pastel pencils to add shadows and make it appear as if the sledge was going past a frozen lake, hope you can see it from the photo.
The sentiment is from the same set.

The only added embellishement was a stamped snowflake with a button, for this card I decided I wanted the stamps to do most of the talking....

Well, hope Linda will accept it as still being inspired by her tag. All the details of the challenge can be found HERE. There is still a bit of time to play and if you decide to tag along, you are in with a chance for a fabulous price sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique

Thanks for all you kind comments on my last card, here's hoping you will like this one too!