Trees from strips and scraps

Posted: November 29, 2023 | Author: | Filed under: Darkroom Door, Dies, Music Background, Penny Black, sheet music, starry night | Tags: , , | 5 Comments

I have a few more cards made from leftovers today; I love leftovers, especially the ones in the fridge but the paper ones are nice too! The card above is my favourite of the mix and it is so simple, just strips and stars. I stamped one of those strips with a music background stamp but the rest are just patterned or gold shimmer cardstock.

I made use of one tree die for the rest of today’s cards, it’s from Penny Black’s ‘evergreen tree‘ die set. The trees above are cut from stamped and patterned paper. The tree below I cut from a piece of kraft that I had coloured my own plaid pattern on with coloured pencils and a gel pen. It was fun but not necessary if you want to be quick. The pretty music stamp featured below is from Darkroom Door and the larger one above from Penny Black.

The final card shows another tree cut with the same die but from printed plaid paper attached to a panel stamped with an old holiday word stamp. The little stars I cut with the PB ‘starry night die’ and used small sentiments from the PB holiday snippets set. It is an old set now but I use it all the time on Christmas cards.

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Stripes and strips

Posted: November 14, 2023 | Author: | Filed under: Christmas background, Dies, Hand drawn, Hand lettered, My Favorite Things, Penny Black, starry night | Tags: , , | 8 Comments

If you have scraps of patterned or solid coloured paper today’s post is for you. I made a panel of striped cardstock by cutting thin strips of patterned paper and gluing them to a piece of light cardstock. From my homemade ‘striped cardstock’ I cut a hand drawn tree, a hand drawn bird and some simple triangle trees. You could use dies for all the elements I was just playing with ideas and decided to sketch and cut myself.

I used an embossed snowflake background for the card at the top of the page, a stamped kraft background for the tree above and then plain kraft for the bird. The little stars that decorate each card I did not hand cut of course! They are cut with the PB ‘starry night die’ and applied with the help of one of those sticky ended tools. Little embellishments have a high fiddliness factor which I don’t appreciate but these tiny stars were necessary!

I added outlines to both the bird and the tree with white or black gel pen along with some dots and a handwritten sentiment.

Cutting my own shapes was fun and put some of the many paper scraps to good use!

Pretty Paper Neighbourhood & a Wreath

Posted: November 16, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Alexandra Renke, neighbourhood border, starry night, whirl wreath | Tags: , , , , | 6 Comments

It’s all soft and subtle on the blog today. I have two projects featuring the beautiful Alexandra Renke cardstock the Foiled Fox recently started carrying in their store. The weight of the cardstock is somewhere between a good quality printer paper and a piece of cardstock. There is definitely enough weight to die cut nicely.

I chose the elegant ‘whirl wreath’ by Penny Black and cut one out of ‘pink dots’ cardstock. I attached it around the centre circle with adhesive but left the branches unattached ( so I will be careful putting it in a envelope) The background is ‘rose stripes’ which matches the pink dots perfectly. I cut the bow out of a piece of cardstock from my stash and layered a few together to give it some extra weight. I blended around the edge of the striped panel with tattered rose distress ink and attached everything to a cream cardbase.

I chose to add a natural twine bow to the die cut bow then had to co-ordinate the sentiment with antique linen distress ink.

For my little neighbourhood card I use three patterns of Alexandra Renke cardstock, the rose stripes, gray stripes and medium mud watercolour. I know it is hard to see the details of the die cuts in my photo but in real life the pink striped neighbourhood is clear against two lines of gray striped trees in front of a gray mud starry sky.

I have been wanting to try a white on white layered die cut scene and I probably still will but chose to try it with these pretty papers first. The neighbourhood is layered over two layers of trees cut with the ‘trees and hills’ dies which are layered over a gray piece cut with the starry sky night die attached directly to a white card base.

I featured some of the subtle colours and patterns from Alexandra Renke today but I do have some bold patterns and solids to share another day.

Have a great weekend.

Supplies

Stamps: Christmas sentiments, winter days (PB)

Dies: whirl wreath, neighbourhood border, starry night die, trees & hills die set (PB)

Cardstock: Alexandra Renke medium mud watercolor, gray stripes, rose stripes & Neenah solar white, cream, pink

Inks: tattered rose, antique linen distress ink, smokey gray versafine ink

Also: hemp twine