Welcome to our monthly Casually Crafting Blog Hop! and my Spruced Up Blended Christmas Tree Card.
Casually Crafting Design Team Blog Hop
The Casually Crafting Design Team is a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world, gathered together to share our passion for creativity with you. Our focus is to bring you inspiration featuring projects that are easy to create while still packing a powerful creative punch. The projects are made with a few products, making them ideally suited to a beginner or casual crafter. From time-to-time, we may also include a project that is stepped-up for the added wow-factor
We will be sharing our ideas on the 3rd Saturday of each month and you can hop around the group and gather loads of inspiration. So grab yourself a cup of your favourite beverage, sit back & enjoy the hop!
Colour Challenge
This month we have a colour challenge and we have a really elegant selection of colours perfect for Christmas cards
Spruced up
Today I am using one of my favourite Bundles from the July To December mini catalogue – Spruced up
Fun Contemporary images paired with the most delightful dies. I just can’t stop making projects with this beautiful set
Spruced Up Blended Christmas Tree Card
If you know me, then you will know that I love love love my blending brushes So its no surprise that I just had to grab them on my recent Facebook live when I had a play with the Spruced Up Bundle
You can see exactly how I made this card on my Facebook live and you won’t believe how easy it is to make with just a handful of products.
If you are busy making your Christmas card right now then this is a perfect style as you can make 4 cards from the die cuts, so bulk card making is a cinch!
How To Make a Spruced Up Blended Christmas Tree Card
Take the piece of Soft Succulent card and create an vignette effect using the Blending brushes and Soft Succulent & Evening Evergreen inks.
Next sprinkle some water over the blended card. Leave for a few seconds, then mop up the water with some kitchen towel to remove some of the ink and create some extra texture.
Wrap some Open Weave ribbon around the card and tie in a bow. You can then adhere the layer to the base card.
Next take you pieces of Gimmer card. Die cut a large and small tree from each colour.
Adhere three of the trees to your card. Use Multipurpose glue for the outline trees or Dimensionals for the inner solid tree shapes. You could even mix them up!
The sentiment is stamped in Evening Evergreen and cut out using the double oval punch. Then glue onto the other punched oval in Gold Glimmer. Fix tot he card with Dimensionals
Finish with some Brushed Metallic adhesive backed dots
These cards really are such fun to make and the die cut trees look so pretty surrounded by the shading.
Measurements – Spruced Up Blended Christmas Tree Card
- Card Base: Evening Evergreen– 21.0cm by 14.8m score at 10.5cm
- First Layer: Soft Succulent – 14.5 cm by 10.2cm
- Trees: Glimmer Speciality paper – 8.0 cm by 7.0 cm CUT one in each colour
- Sentiment: Basic White – scrap
- Sentiment Layer: Glimmer Speciality paper– 14.9 cm by 10.5 cm
- Inner: Basic White 14.5 cm by 10.2 cm
Voila!
I had great fun making this card. So, please do leave me a comment, letting me know what you think.
If you would like to know more about any of my projects please do get in contact and I would be happy to help you
So now it’s time to hop around the rest of the wonderful demonstrators blogs to see some more inspiration
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Sara
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A really elegant card. I love the way you created the background.
That blending is beautiful Sara, I love the texture it creates and then the Sparkle , wowsers – Love It xx