Let me start by saying that I love that everyone knows exactly what you mean when you say "Charlie Brown tree."
I got to play with my stamping stuff for the first time in ages this week, and here's the first card I worked on. I am really happy how it came out, and it may become my default "mass produce" card as the year goes on. I try to do a variety of Christmas cards, but at a certain point, I'll find one that's easy to make and pull it out to make more of when time or imagination gets short.
This card was made using a die from Stamplorations that I refer to as a Charlie Brown tree because it's sort of appealingly sparse and off-kilter. I wanted to use a variety of patterned papers, so I took a bunch of snippets, taped them together and ran them thru the die-cutter. (I started by cutting a full tree from a piece of white card stock, and I used the negative to make sure the snippets were arranged so they'd be well-placed on the die-cut). After cutting, the die-cut snippets were adhered to the plain, full die-cut tree for sturdiness and to make sure everything was lined up correctly. If I were to mass produce this card, I'd simply cut the entire tree from four or five different patterned papers, then cut the pieces roughly where I did here and mix and match the trees for a similar effect. The tree is on foam tape dimensionals on the card.
The sentiment is also from Stamplorations, (I think the set is called the Joy of Giving...?) It's white-embossed.
The layout is the current Sketch Saturday layout, and everything on it is a snippet.
This card is for these challenges:
Sketch Saturday #573
Catch the Bug Christmas in July Day 1-- movie inspiration A Charlie Brown Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #447 -- use a die-cut
Rudolph Days July -- Christmas
Crafting By Designs -- get ready for Christmas
The Paper Shelter -- Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #396 -- Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippet Playground -- use snippets
Stamplorations -- neverending challenge using Stamploration products
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper
Awesome way you did the tree. Great papers and so glad you shared over at Catch the bug for our Christmas in July.
ReplyDeleteBillie A
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I love your project, thank you so much for taking the time to join in our Saturday CIJ event it means so much to us to have you!
ReplyDeleteFun card. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Hazel Nut's Christmas Card Weekly Challenge - Myrna DT
ReplyDeleteWOW this is fabulous! What a die and what a result as well.I think you'll get tons of use from this little baby :)
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm late commenting - blame Dudley Dog :)
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Di xx