Thursday, November 10, 2011

Tryptic Christmas Tree Card with Marianne Creatables



When I started this card, I began with an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of card stock, then just kept playing with it until I got a shape I liked. After cutting and folding, I realized it wouldn't fit into any envelope I had, so I cut it down some more until it fit an 8 1/2" square envelope.

Then I cut the red cs to fit and applied that. I tried a bunch of Marianne Creatables dies, until I found something I liked, and cut and embossed those and applied them to the card. The sides where the card is folded looked bare, so I ran some ribbon through my little X shaped Xyron, and added that to the sides. Then I added some snowflake buttons I had, and decorated the tree with white sparkly Stickles.

I didn't think it came out too badly for all the experimenting I had to do to make it fit an envelope!

3 comments:

  1. I'd have never known you did all that experimenting if you hadn't mentioned it. I really love the color of cardstock you used, and the embossing looks wonderful!

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  3. You did and excellent job with this card. The white looks stunning with all the red. Very christmas'ish! Have a nice day :-)

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