O Christmas Tree!

This Christmas tree I made for our regular swap generated some interest on fellow swapper's Facebook post.  So I thought I'd post a quick tutorial on how I made it.

The idea started months ago, while I was making this layout:

Seeing how the rosettes stacked so beautifully, I experimented with making each die-cut strip into fans, and folding one segment to the back to get more contact area.

A dab of glue and a bit of pinching later:

The base of the tree is formed from half a die-cut strip.  Three segments lay flat while the rest are accordion folded and stuck on.

The base and three fan shapes layered on to an embossed ATC card base, topped with a gold brad on a vellum circle:

All done!

Latest layout featuring Sizzix, for Made With Love.

With the kiddo at home and lots of year-end errands to run, time for scrapping is considerably reduced. So it's really a time-saver to use large embellishments to finish the layout faster. The 657390 Daisy Blast, at a whopping 4 3/4", has lots of "real estate" for dressing it up.



For this layout, I simply wound twine around the petals:



and through the holes in the centre:



Hope you have a blast making quick layouts too!

Miss Spoken

E: Yiyi went holiday
Me: Yes. She's gone to Taiwan
W: After that she goes to Tai-Two?

Miss Spoken

"Eryn, be careful!"
"Ok Mom, I'm be-carefulling!"

Miss Spoken continued

So this four year-old cannot think of herself in 3rd person. 
E: Mommy where is the little girl asking questions?
Me: She still awake. Her name is E-r-y-n. 
E: Same as me?

Miss Spoken

Me: There is a little girl who's asking Mommy a lot of questions.
E: Who?
Me: She's supposed to be sleeping but she's asking so many questions!
E: Daddy do you know who is the girl asking Mommy so many questions?

Layout for Made With Love.  This is my nephew and his many antics, gotta love this boy!

I paired the Sizzix Flourish die with Stamper's Anonymous Flourish stamp and played with all sorts of white medium.

Transparent Rock Candy crackle paint, shiny stickles in Frosted Lace and opaque gesso applied through the die negatives while the positives weigh down the bottom of the page.

Stamped flourishes in white pigment ink edge the photo.

If you are not aware, MWL is having its 8th anniversary this month.  Truly when I think of MWL, it's more than just a store, it's almost like home!!  Congratulations, and here's to many more good years!!