Sunday 30 August 2015

It's that Christmas tree die again!

My Christmas tree die just HAS to be the most useful magazine cover gift I've ever had! It's big enough to be a main focal point, yet small enough to be cut with snippets, it comes cleanly out of the die every time and most importantly of all, it looks great. In fact I use it more often than many of my full price bought dies.

This time I've combined it with snippets of silver and white card, a length of ribbon that came around a gift box of smellies and a  doodled background made using a Tonertex pen and silver foil from FoilPlay . I also foiled the edges of the background card and the tree topper. The stars on the background actually cover the whole of the background but I couldn't get the lighting right to show it!



I'm sharing this with

Allsorts Challenge - Recycle/upcycle (the ribbon)
Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge - Make your own background
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Use Some Silver
Pixie's Snippets Playground - week 192  
Just us Girls - Wild card week - sketch

10 comments:

Foil Play said...

What a beautiful card, Jane - the die is gorgeous, and I love your co-ordinating foiled background and ribbon too!

Di said...

Totally gorgeous card Jane - and I fully understand how much you must love this beautiful die, it's a perfect size and lovely design too! Great doodled background and ribbon too!

I won't leave you a whole story today :)

Hugs

Di xx

Barb said...

The tree die looks lovely in silver and I like your doodled background. Oooh the foiled border is a gorgeous addition to a beautiful card. Barbxx

Wendy L said...

Lovely card, so pretty, thanks for joining our challenge at Allsorts this week, xxx

Liz said...

Fabulous card, Jane. I think I have this freebie die too, as yet unused..... I'll have to dig it out now I've seen how beautifully it cuts. xx

brenda said...

Great use of the gift package ribbon Jane.

Many thanks for joining in my recycling theme at Allsorts this week.

B x

Crafty Judith said...

Fabulous background and thank you for playing along at Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge happy crafting Judith DT x

Nancy said...

I think you have a winner for sure with that Christmas Tree die! You are going to get many many miles out of it! Your card looks terrific too! Thanks for joining the girls and I over at Just Us Girls for our Sketch Challenge this week!

Sarn said...

Ooh that is so pretty. What a great magazine cover gift! You've made a lovely card with it.
Hugs, Sarn x

Hazel said...

Thanks for entering your lovely crafting for Suzy Bee's and also for my CHNC challenge 244 - hope to see you again soon