Last Saturday was Crop Day at Michaels. I decided to pick up a new Sizzix die and play with it. I'd been toying with some ideas for this particular die and decided it was time to try it out.
I planned to make cards with this and, because it's a tree, I started playing with different patterns of green paper. As I was cutting out the trees, I thought it would be cool to use the negative side of this die, too, so I made the first tree card using a negative.
I placed a glittery, embossed piece of green cardstock behind the shape of the cut-out tree, matted it, added the ribbon, and I was done.
This one is using the negative method, too. I glittered the card, placed the negative cut-out tree over the glitter and added the snowflakes made from Martha Stewart's Punch Around the Page set in the Aspen pattern.
I used the actual tree on this one. I did kind of an ombre glitter effect. The ombre turned out really well, but this was a bit more time consuming. I mounted it on an embossed mat reminiscent of swirling snow.
As I was taking a picture of the last green card, Lucky decided to photobomb the picture. This card has two cut out trees mounted on it - one cut out of a pattern, the other cut out of plain green cardstock - and then decorated with Stickles. The snowflake pattern along the edge is a Martha Stewart punch.
By this time, I was getting a bit tired of green, so went with a couple of other color patterns.
What's Christmas without the red to go with the green? :) This card is a cut out tree mounted on a plain white card, embellished with Stickles, and tied with a glittery, red ribbon.
Again, a white tree mounted on a white mat, mounted on a white card. Martha Stewart's turquoise and silver tinsel glitters add the sparkle here, as well as three colors of her fine glitter as embellishments.
Off to play with paints today! Enjoy those fall colors....
Kath
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