Friday, December 24, 2021

Christmas Quilt


 A merry Christmas to all.  

For what will probably be my final holiday card for the year, I'm revisiting the Disappearing Nine-Patch.  I made a Thanksgiving themed card with this technique earlier this year, but I have a ton of Christmas DP snippets and this seemed like a good use for them. (See the inset photo for some of the snippets I started with. As you can see, most aren't any bigger than a tiny ink cube, which is the black square at the top of the photo for scale.)

To make the patches, I started by die-cutting nine different papers with a Spellbinder's one-inch square die. I then arranged them into a 3x3 square and adhered all to a backing paper. Then I cut the nine-patch in half horizontally and vertically,  rearranged the pieces to my liking, and matted them on a green snippet. For the sentiment, I used another tiny snippet that says "Tis the Season" matted on another small snippet. 

I sprinkled a few red sequins on because I felt the card "needed something." Now I'm not sure that's what it needed, but there they are.

This card is entered in these challenges

Pixie's Snippet Playground  #418. (everything but the card base was a teeny tiny Snippet)

Word Art Wednesday #523 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2151 -- anything goes

Die-cut Divas -- Christmas/winter  (used Spellbinder's one-inch square die)

 



Stencils and diecuts

  I've had the idea for this card for a while, but I finally got around to making it this week.  I started by stenciling the stone fence...

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