Perfect Pines Framelits Dies Archives

Continuing on from yesterday, I made more tags using up “leftovers” although my father objected to the term since he felt that some of the parts were too gorgeous to be deemed leftover! And I actually did some stamping this time (apart from on the back), using Peaceful Pines.

The first tag is on a base of cherry cobbler which I punched with the scalloped tag topper punch; oddly this was on my pile, I’d been planning on making tags last week but this one didn’t get beyond the base! The always artichoke pine boughs cut out using perfect pines thinlits dies were from an attempt to put a mass of pine boughs on a card – it got too fussy and I cut back on the number, so here were the perfect number for a tag. I first used heat embossing and copper powder to add the sentiment and then used the silicone mat and sponge dauber to attach the pine boughs. I actually had to cut something out to finish it – it needed a copper foil bow (from the same set of framelits) and I used some cherry cobbler baker’s twine to attach one of the mini pinecone embellishments. In order to let this swing free, I popped up the bow with teeny tiny pieces of dimensionals. A combo of cherry cobbler and gold baker’s twine was used for the string.

Next I found a beautiful silver foil star cut out using the Starlight thinlits dies which I attached to a circle of cherry cobbler with a circle of whisper white on the back to make it possible to write on it. Well, legibly anyway. I attached the cherry cobbler baker’s twine and it looked wrong because the twine hides some of the star and it looked as if there was too much star at the bottom. So, I turned it up the other way and it’s perfect. At least I think so – let me know what you think.

The third tag is my father’s favourite. The pieces have been languishing in my leftovers pile for a while as you can see since it’s using red foil which was in last year’s catalog! Both the red foil and the gold foil back were cut using the delicate ornament thinlits dies which were carried over from last year. I sandwiched the gold baker’s twine between the layers with fuse before using the liquid glue and a sponge dauber to attach the rest.

I hope that you’ll have some fun making tags. It’s so much fun because there are no rules of sizes or shapes, you can just use up whatever you have hanging around. Your leftover pile will thank you!

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Liz

It’s time for the first sketch challenge of the month at CAS Colours & Sketches, this one set by Jane. And it seemed a great time to make another Christmas card, this time using Peaceful Pines. I’m trying to sneak in a few Christmas cards even though it’s July so that we’ll be off to a good start for later in the year!

Here’s the banner which inspired my card and as you can see, I’ve turned it through 180 degrees:

It’s a really fun sketch and allows you to go in pretty much any direction. Why don’t you have a go and put your work in the gallery? You don’t need a blog to enter, you can upload it to public galleries like splitcoaststamper or flickr and link it.

I started by embossing the tree with gold embossing powder (using the Peaceful Pines stamp set) and after cutting it out with the Perfect Pines framelits dies, popped it up with dimensionals on the very vanilla layer. I then stamped the sentiment, from Embellished Ornaments in real red before adhering the very vanilla piece to a real red cardstock.