The Paper Players challenge this week pretty much screams Christmas and even though I’m not really focused on Christmas Card making yet, I went for it anyway.
Here’s the banner which inspired my card:
I started by stamping the speckles in cucumber crush onto the same coloured card using the Peaceful Pines set and then cut it out with the matching framelit. I couldn’t resist cutting out the holes using another of the framelits. I cut out another tree in red – and trimmed the edges – and layered it behind to see how it looked. I then stamped some ornaments in crushed curry on crushed curry card stock and cut them out (again with the same set of framelits) but I didn’t like how they looked on the tree. Still, I liked how they looked behind the tree. So the little ornaments were glued onto the tree’s back using the fine tip glue pen and then I attached the red tree on top of them. So, I had my tree. Then there was a fair bit of playing with different colours of cardstock and different orientations until I decided to cut out the merry with the Christmas Greetings Framelits in real red. Now I could see where I was going and I stuck down my tree using dimensionals. Rookie mistake! I tried to stamp the Christmas (from Holly Jolly Greetings) in cucumber crush using my stamp-a-ma-jig for placement and of course the raised tree meant that I stamped it wonky. After using a knife to remove my tree – and scrape off the remaining pieces of dimensionals, I started again. This time I decided on Christmas in real red and added the crushed curry stars (also from Holly Jolly Greetings) before gluing the tree back on – again with dimensionals. The fine tip glue pen made quick work of adhering the die cut merry and then all that was left was to put the very vanilla piece onto a real red cardbase. Another clean and simple card, my favourite!
See you tomorrow,
Liz
So sweet and simple and a perfect display of our challenge colors this week! Thanks for joining us at the Paper Players Liz!
Thanks Jodi – it’s so much fun doing challenges, it really does push one
Oh my, this is adorable! Love the simple use of these bold colors and the ornaments *behind* the tree is brilliant! So glad you joined us at The Paper Players!
Thanks Nance – I was happy to play with my new set, it was perfect for the challenge
Well done for persevering Liz – your festive Christmas card looks great! Thanks for joining us over at The Paper Players this week!
Thanks Joanne – I’m pretty pleased with how it came out, especially as I’d never have put those colours together. I may have to make a few extras for sending.
Sometimes the simplest creations take the longest, don’t they? I am glad you persevered, because this is just perfect the way it is! I love the ornaments peeking out from behind, and your sentiment is PERFECT! Cute CAS creation! So happy you shared this with us this week!
Thanks LeAnne. It’s amazing how cards evolve into something that you didn’t expect but really like.