In keeping with my Christmas trees theme of yesterday, I got the idea to die cut Christmas trees with the Foil Frenzy Specialty Designer Series Paper to make a Christmas card. Using this colorful paper with foil colors and patterns makes for a more whimsical card! The foil patterns are printed on heavyweight kraft paper so besides cards, this paper is good for making boxes and other 3D projects for any occasion, not just Christmas! Check out the Foil Frenzy Paper!
One of the coordinating colors of the foil is Berry Burst, one of the In Colors, so I used that color for my card base. The card layer is, again, Shimmery White. After I die cut the three Christmas trees with the tree in the Santa’s Sleigh Thinlits Dies, I decided to slide them all over to the right and add a bow to the side. The card is wrapped with the Berry Burst Ribbon, and I also added a piece of the 1/8″ Gold Ribbon for an added accent. The bow is a “cheater bow” – I adhered the strip of ribbon around the card layer but then tied the bow separately and adhered it to the ribbon with several Glue Dots. Makes it a little easier to just attach the bow rather than to tie it actually on the card!
The greeting is one from Oh What Fun and I simply stamped the whole thing with Berry Burst ink. Another thing you can do with markers is to color right on the stamp, coloring different areas different colors. After the coloring and before stamping, be sure to “huff” or breathe on the stamp to remoisten the ink, then stamp! This will give a slightly lighter inked image than if you inked up with an ink pad directly, but it is a good technique to use sometimes.
Even when you start with an idea of what you are going to stamp, often another idea comes to mind while you are creating. Just go with it and see what happens! If it doesn’t work, just keep working on it and you probably will find just the right combination of what looks good for your project!
Be sure to check out my card from yesterday in THIS POST to see the more typical way to use the Santa’s Sleigh tree die – or is there really a typical way to use any of our products?! It’s all about the creativity!