Holiday Cards - Day 5

Todays lesson was all about using your scraps, which is always a great thing to do because they seem to accumulate faster than we use them. 

I thought this first card was a fun and different approach basically taking squares and incrementing them by a quarter inch (i.e. 1, 1.25, 1.5, etc) and then scoring or folding them diagonally (think corner to corner) and then 1 time in half. The two corners get squished together causing the middle section which was your half score mark to be pinched inward. Thus you get a triangle. You start with the smallest glue it down to you card base then take the next largest size and trim the pointed edge so it will lay flat up against the glued down triangle and you just keep going till your happy with the height of your tree and finish it off with the embellishments. While it was a lot of fun for me to make I don't care for the wonkiness (for lack of a better word) that the pop up creates. Super cute though and you can make ornaments using the same method except with 4 circles that become quarters of a pie (no trimming required)

The next card had us use circles and dry embossing folders to give it textures then turn those into ornaments with bow dies and drawing a string to create the ornament. I thought it would be fun to try and replicate it using scraps of silver mirror cardstock and an embossing folder that already had ornaments on it. Then I just colored in the already present string and bow with a silver pen afterwards. I did distress some cardstock first before I embossed it to add more interest. 

The last card is kind of a repeat but I like the making the strips and then assemble those and either using them behind a diecut object or diecutting the strips themselves. I choose the latter.