Paper Conversation

One of the blogs I like to visit is Paper Conversation... Mickey Roberts does a great job of sharing a lot of her projects and clubs she does.... take a look at this darling Christmas tree card.... notice the chevron image stamping she created... how did she get it lined up so perfectly????

Here's how she did it:  I would love for you to think that I was able to stamp the chevron image side-by-side with enough precision to correctly align all the lines; but that is definitely NOT the case.  The chevron image was stamped five times on Whisper White cardstock using Cherry Cobbler ink and each stamped image cut out with Paper Snips close to the outside edges of each stamped image.  Then the five images were lined up side-by-side, with one image pointing up and the next pointing down, and adhered to a base piece of Whisper White cardstock beginning at the center of the cardstock and moving outward to the left and right edges.  The overhang was trimmed away with Paper Snips to the size of the base piece of Whisper White cardstock.

The base cardstock was adhered to the lower half of a Gumball Green cardstock panel.  A piece of Snow Festival Designer Series Paper was adhered to the top half of the Gumball Green cardstock panel.  Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding ribbon was wrapped around the panel where the Snow Festival and chevron panel meet and knotted on the front of the Gumball Green cardstock panel.  The Gumball Green cardstock panel was adhered to the Cherry Cobbler card front.

The garland tree image from the Pennant Parade stamp set was stamped seven (7) times on a piece of Whisper White cardstock and the trees punched out with the straight side pennant of the Petite Pennants Builder punch.  A single scallop edge pennant was punched from Whisper White cardstock.  The tree stand image from the Pennant Parade stamp set was stamped on a scrap of Whisper White cardstock three times using Early Espresso ink.  The tree stands were cut out with Paper Snips.  A tree stand was adhered on top of the Snow Festival Designer Series Paper just above the ribbon knot and the short edge of the Whisper White scallop pennant adhered atop the tree stand.

Five of the punched garland trees were scored from the tip of the tree to the bottom edge to fold the trees in half.  The trees were then adhered together (right side of one tree to left side of the next).  The outermost left side and outermost right side was adhered at the center of the Whisper White scallop edge pennant.  The remaining two garland trees were adhered to the right and left of the center tree and the remaining tree stands adhered below the left and right trees.  Three stars were punched from Silver Glimmer Paper using the small star punch from the Merry Minis Punch Pack and adhered at the top of each tree using Mini Glue Dots.

The inside sentiment area of the card was lined with a piece of Whisper White cardstock.  A strip of Gumball Green cardstock was punched three times using the tree punch from the Merry Minis Punch Pack and adhered along the top edge of the Whisper White cardstock.  The tree images from the Merry Minis stamp set were stamped inside the punched out trees using Gumball Green ink and the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig.  Two of the punched out trees were adhered in the non-punched area of the Gumball Green cardstock using Mini Glue Dots.  The "merry merry merry merry merry" image from the Border Banter stamp set was stamped across the bottom edge of the Whisper White liner using Cherry Cobbler ink and the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig.

A lovely sentiment from the More Merry Messages stamp set was inked using the brush tip of the Cherry Cobbler and Gumball Green Stampin' Write Markers and stamped near the upper center of the liner.

I know... scarrry showing Christmas cards already 

and I'm the one complaining they're already playing 

Christmas music in the stores... oops!