Wooden Trees

 

I was playing around with some wooden trees this past week decorating them with paint, stamps, paper, ribbon, embellishments, etc.  They are all a little different and decorated on both sides.  

 

I put them together in sets of threes for my craft show on Thursday and this one was the most popular, but they went over well. 

 

I used mod podge to adhere the designer and specialty papers to the wood and then added the embellishments with several different adhesives.

 

The ones that were stamped have Metallic ink, craft ink, Memento ink and regular ink on them, and they all seemed to work well.

 

The fine tip glue pen worked great for the little embellishments that didn't have adhesive on them already.

 

This is the back side of the set of trees above...

 

and a few different ones...

 

If I made these again, I might not paint them all, especially if I am stamping colors on them because the red ink doesn't really stand out too much on the flowers.

 

The lace trim around the outside of some of the trees was attached with small nails...

 

And a few more samples...

 

close up...

 

it is hard to see too easily, but there are basic pearls on some of the snowflakes below...

 

Supplies:

Reason for the Season, Holly Jolly Greetings

Metallic silver, Metallic gold, Craft White, Memento Black, Sahara Sand and Real Red ink

designer buttons

basic pearls

basic rhinestones

winter wonderland embellishments

gold sequin trim

trim lace ribbon

metal rimmed pearls

Winter wonderland dsp

retired dsp

corrugated paper

circle punches

tea lace paper doilies

 

Peace on Earth

 

I just love the Hearth and Home thinlits paired with the Happy Scenes stamp set.  There are just so many possibilities!  For this card, I used a glassine sheet as a "window" and embossed it with the Softly Falling folder before I placed it behind the window frame thinlit.  Then I stamped the image of the evergreen trees on some Whisper White card stock and placed that behind the window. 

 

 

I chose the Holly Jolly Greetings set to add some snowflakes to the background and for the "on earth"...

 

"Peace" comes from another thinlit set called Christmas greetings and I used the fine tip glue pen to attach it to the card base. 

 

Finally I added some basic rhinestones and some Winter Wonderland Embellishments to finish it off.

 

Supplies:

Holly Jolly Greetings, Happy Scenes

Crumb Cake , Island Indigo ink

Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Island Indigo card stock

Home and Hearth thinlits

Christmas greetings thinlits

glassine sheets

Softly falling folder

Winter wonderland embellishments

basic rhinestones

 

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Joy

 

As I get this post ready to go I am noticing that the last few projects have all had some Corrugated paper on them - that actually wasn't planned I guess it is just the way the I ended up photographing the pile of projects I had ready to go!

 

This card uses that corrugated paper as a background layer with some Holidays Fancy Foil vellum on top of it.  It doesn't photograph too well close up as you can see in the picture below, but it looks great in person :) 

 

The stamp set used is called Jolly Christmas and I pulled out another Winter Wonderland embellishment to finish off the card.

 

Supplies:

Jolly Christmas

Real Red, Smoky Slate ink

Whisper White, Lost Lagoon, Smoky Slate card stock

Holidays Fancy Foil vellum

Corrugated paper

Winter Wonderland embellishments

White jute ribbon

corner punch

 

 

Window Scenes

 

In the Holiday catalog, there is a thinlit set called Hearth and Home and it cuts out this adorable window (there is also another thinlit in the set that cuts out a little window box but I didn't use it on this card).  The first thing I wanted to use it for was a winter scene  and I chose the Project Life Hello December 2015 stamp set to accomplish that.

 

I added some snowflake and pine tree images to a piece of Pool Party card stock and placed that behind the window cut out and onto a piece of Crumb Cake that was embossed with the Brick Wall folder.

 

The sentiment is from Peaceful Pines and I added a cute little Winter wonderland embellishment beside it.

 

Supplies:

Peaceful Pines

Project Life Hello December 2015

Early Espresso, White Craft ink

Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Pool Party card stock

Corrugated Paper

Hearth and Home thinlits

Winter wonderland embellishments

Brick Wall folder