Saturday, November 09, 2024

Cricut Drawn Christmas Tree Upcycled Card

 

Every month a friend and I make Christmas cards. We call it 5on5: the goal is to make 5 Christmas cards on the fifth of every month at 5:00 PM. Each month we have a theme and  February’s theme was to reuse, recycle, or repurpose. Which brings me to this card that 
I received this 3 years ago. It had a noticeable smudge of green ink in the upper left corner. It 
took this long to figure out what I could do to the Cricut pen on the 
I tried a white gel pen and that just made the green ink smear more. In order to make it not look as though I’m covering up a mistake, I would have to go around each area just like it smear the green, and cover it with a white gel pen. 
This is what I have to say about that white gel pen wasn’t very consistent so I bought some off of Amazon that are amazing.

Anyway, I came to the conclusion that the flaw needed to be covered up with something solid. I pulled out these not rhinestones or gems or enamel dots. Nope, none of those. They are a product from Imaginisce. You heat set them to your project with this tiny little thing which applies heat. They match the green marker used on the tree. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 



Thursday, November 07, 2024

Fold Out Christmas Tree Farm Card



I made this card for Craft Roulette #239 the parameters were to make an interactive card with picnic colors, farm elements, and strips of paper.
I’m not sure what this card fold is called but I am obsessed with it. It’s so easy to score and it looks like a rock star. The first picture shows what it looks like when you take it out of the cart. You don’t even see the trees on the outside until you open it up. I love that when you do open it up you have a full 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 view that stands up for display. 
My picnic color is green. My farm is a Christmas tree farm and I have 2 strips of silver Sizzix mirror paper on the insides. I had a hard time getting the two darkest colored trees to fold in so you wouldn’t see them until the card was opened.
The front of the card is a Cricut draw, and I did it with a glitter marker. The middle Christmas   tree is from a store bought card, but the other trees were cut with my Cricut. The star top are from a corner punch that is made of stars. The perfect little size for things like this. I drew the tree trunks on with colored pencils and Copic markers.
Thanks for looking. HAGD!