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)
Fantastic use of your snippets. Great card. So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas challenge
ReplyDeleteLOVE this Disappearing 9 Patch technique. Seems to be very popular at the moment! Great way to use up Snippets.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a lovely Christmas.
Hugs, Sarn x
As Sarn says, a super way to use up snippets and such a great technique. One I want to try just as soon as the mad panic of the Grand Draw is over and done with!
ReplyDeleteHugs
Di xx