Decorating the Tree

This card is being entered in the Mod Squad Challenge – Frosty the Snowman – where the theme is snowmen. (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

This card is also being entered in the Perfectly Rustics Design Challenge No. 37 – Sentiment (Not Birthday). The focus of this challenge is the sentiment on the card, but NO HAPPY BIRTHDAY sentiments are to be used in this challenge!  They want us to think outside of the standard (most commonly used sentiment) and come up with something different than Happy Birthday. The “Merry and Bright” sentiment was chosen to go with the festive lights for the tree. (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2014/12/01/prdc-37-sentiment-not-birthday/)

This card is also being entered in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Christmas/Holidays – where we are to create a holiday themed project.  (http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-christmas/)

The stamps used for this project were from the Gina K Designs “Winter Cheer” and “Christmas Joy” stamp sets.  The card base is Gina K kraft, and the green is from the My Mind’s Eye “Signature Christmas” 6×6 designer paper pad.  The printed card stock was from the DCWV “Storybook Christmas” 6×6 paper stack.  I stamped the snowmen images on the printed background panel with Memento tuxedo black ink.  I also stamped the snowmen onto white card stock , colored them with Copic Markers R89, Y17, YR18, C1 and T2 and went over their bodies with a clear Wink of Stella glitter pen (which you can’t really see in the photo).  I then cut them out and adhered them to the background paper directly over the other stamped images.  (Since I had stamped the snowmen directly on the background panel, I didn’t need to worry about cutting around their thin arms.)  The tree is a Silhouette element called “Echo Park Christmas Tree” by Echo Park (design id # 17363).  The string of mini “lights” was from AC Moore, with the decorations for the mini Christmas trees.  The greeting was stamped with versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  The edges of the brown and green card stock were all inked with Gina K dark chocolate ink.

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Pleated Snowman

This card is being entered in the Mod Squad Challenge – Frosty the Snowman – where the theme is snowmen.   (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

All the printed paper for this card came from the My Mind’s Eys “Signature Christmas” 6×6 designer paper pad, and the card base was Gina K moonlit fog.  The greeting stamp was from the Gina K Designs “Peace and Joy” set and was stamped with Gina K moonlit fog ink.

To make the pleated panel for his head, I scored (and scored and scored!) a long strip of card stock and then folded it back and forth like a fan.  Once the strip was folded, I glued the ends together (which looked like a tube or cylinder at this point).  Then I gently flattened it which formed the shape you see on the card.  I glued that onto the card base behind the top panel with the circle cut-out.  (The strip I started with had a width that was a little more than 1/2 the size of my circle cut-out or a little more than the radius of the circle.  For example, if the circle is 2 inches across, you want the strip to be a little more than 1 inch wide.  My strip was 12 inches long which I made by gluing two 6 inch strips together.  The longer the strip’s length, the tighter your pleats will be when it is flattened.)  I adhered the top panel to the card base with several layers of foam tape around the all the edges  (enough so the top panel could lie flat over the pleated panel).

The hat, scarf and frame around the circle were cut with my Silhouette.  The piece containing the greeting was stamped on the circle scrap that was cut out of the card front.  Originally, I intended to cut a rectangular panel, got the top and bottom trimmed, and realized it looked like it could be the top of his body, so I hand-cut a mat and used it that way.

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