Christmas Card Inspiration

Good morning, today I will share with you an Origami folded Christmas tree.  

I really loved how this turned out and have been making a few over the last few days.  This tree would also be super cute on a Christmas page layout.  Hope you have fun making these little trees.

Photo instructions

Fold each square as follows

Fold your square across fold line E (you have a rectangle)
From E fold in towards F
point A C will meet

Now do the same on the other side

From E fold towards F 

point BD will meet and fold onto point D

 The square now forms a double layer triangle that looks like this.

 Fold one point of the triangle to the centre line 

 Take the next point and also fold it towards the centre.

 Turn your pieces over and apply glue liberally on the back of each tree segment.

Now start with the largest segment and glue down onto your card working from the bottom to the top of the tree.

Have fun and thanks for stopping by

~Michelle~ 

Inspiration Post ~ Borders

Good morning, Michelle here and today I would like to do an inspiration post. We all have small scraps of paper from cut off pieces from our scrap pages or cards.  Well today I want to share with you what you can do with them.

  Cut your leftovers into squares.  The bigger the square the less you will need to make your border.

Start overlapping one over the other along the edge of your page or card. If you have applied glue to the whole sqaure work on the edge of a table.  

Continue until you have something that looks like this.

Now flip over the page and take some scissors and cut along the edge of your page and trim the excess off.  That excess can be flipped over and stuck down to continue your border.  No Waste!!!

I used this technique on a card .  This is the end result.  

Pattern used was from

Apple of my Eye

Thanks for stopping by

~ Michelle~

Inspiration post. Acetate and Adirondak Alcohol Inks

Hello again and today I am back with another inspiration post.  I find these the most difficult post of all.  Anyhow I hope you like what I came up with.

What you will need

Acetate template

Cardstock template

Acrylic paint and paintbrush

Alcohol inks  

Blending tool

Stamps of your choice

For this project I used Lots of Labels

  Apply a few drops of Alcohol inks to the stamp and then blend them together with your blending tool.

Now stamp onto the front of your acetate template. Let the ink dry.  (I used an old acetate gift box.  I never throw them away as you never know when you will need it.) For the purpose of this tutorial and photographing I stamped some  ink to get a clearer picture.

Once the ink has dried, turn your template over and paint the back with your paint.  You can go lighter or darker, it is really up to you.

While the paint is still wet, turn your template back to front side up and stick down onto your card stock.  The wet paint replaces having to use glue.

The end result on a card.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you all have a wonderful day

~ Michelle~

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