Sunday, October 25, 2015

Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop - Christmas Joy

Good Morning all! Today I am participating in Papertrey Ink's October Blog Hop. This month we are challenged to take inspiration from the photo below:

I was inspired of course by the colours red, green and kraft and also by the twine wrapped sprigs of greenery. I had in mind to create a swag of magnolia leaves including some painted silver, however I only had one leaf die that even remotely resembled a magnolia leaf and it was too large to do what I wanted to do. I am happy with the results of my first Christmas card for this season.



I die cut five leaves using the Leaf Silhouettes die, scored them down the middle and inked the edges and center spine with dark green. I glued them down to a narrow strip of brown cardstock and added the jingle bells and twine. I only had natural twine, so I added a few drops of red re-inker to some water in a mister and sprayed the twine. For the jingle bells I took silver bells, painted them with white acrylic paint and sprinkled with prisma glitter. For the background I sponged some white pigment ink onto the edges of the kraft paper and on the left and upper sections of the piece. I spattered some white pigment ink, heat embossed the sentiment and also stamped a few snowflakes.

Supplies:
Stamps - Filled With Joy (PTI), Snow Flurries (CTMH)
Dies - Leaf Silhouettes (PTI)
Paper - Classic Kraft CS, Pinefeather CS, Stampers Select White CS (PTI), DP (CTMH)
Ink - Versa Mark, White EP, White Pigment Ink, Ponderosa Pine, White Acrylic paint, Tulip re-inker
Other - Twine, jingle bells

23 comments:

  1. Connie, love your rustic design...so perfect!

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  2. I love the green leaf sprig on your beautiful Christmas card, Connie!

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  3. Lovely - super idea, love the swag and the twine. Beautifully done, Connie.

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  4. Beautiful use of the leaf die, Connie. Love the touches of white on kraft!

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  5. Lovely card! I really like your soft kraft background with snowflakes and how you drew your inspiration from the photo from this month's hop.

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  6. beautiful card...love your sweet little swag!!

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  7. This is so pretty, and is a wonderful interpretation of the inspiration photo. Love all those leaves!

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  8. You added so many lovely details to this card! I love the leaf swag, and I want to make tags like this. Thanks for giving me the great idea of dyeing my twine any colour I want. And painting those bells white and adding glitter is just genius!

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  9. So pretty and creative, love the addition of the jingle bells!

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  10. This is such a pretty card. I love how you wrapped your leaf swag with twine like the inspiration photo. It's perfect! The background has such a great depth with the sponging and spattering. Wonderful card!!

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  11. Beautiful card Connie! Love the soft kraft background and your little swag of leaves...SO pretty! And thanks for the idea about dyeing twine...never thought of that but I love it and will definitely be trying it!! :0)

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  12. Love your rich, green leaves and red twine! (Great idea to dye your own, btw.)

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  13. So pretty! I love that you used the leaf silhouette dies to make the mistletoe!

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  14. Connie, what a lovely card this is.
    Beautifully done!

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  15. Such a beautiful card! Love the little bells!

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  16. Beautiful Connie! The snowflake background on kraft looks amazing! So fun and festive!

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  17. I like how your card can transition for different seasons.

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  18. Great card, Connie! Love the glittery bells and your custom colored twine.

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Thanks so much for your kind comments, they always make my day.