I find Christmas trees to be rather majestic and stately, so I thought this would work for the current challenge. I started out with the Open Christmas Tree…this is a really fun stencil, and I will be showing you several different projects I made with it over the next few weeks. You can do SO much with it, since it is open. This time, I chose to work with the Scales stencil to fill in the tree. It gives the tree a very traditional feel.
I used a Versa Mark ink from Imagine Crafts, and applied it with a stencil brush with the rouging technique. I had masked off the star and stand, and after the green was down, I colored in those areas with the same technique. For my sentiment, I applied the Happy Holidays stencil by using gold embossing paste. I love the sheen it has and the dimension. I used a texturizer to rough up the edge of my focal cardstock.
I hope you can see….my focal piece of cardstock has shimmery bits throughout it…it’s so pretty in real life. Plus, my under layer is a shimmery gold. But I thought the tree needed more…so I used s shimmery pen from Sakura to add a burgundy “garland” to the tree; just by following the scales pattern. I also used a clear version of the pen for the star. This was simple enough to easily recreate quickly, if I wanted to have a batch ready to go for the holidays. My husband really loved this one, and that is always a good thing! Now, why not check out what the rest of B Team has in store? Please visit the Dream it Up! blog to see the link list for this week. Thanks for stopping by. Have an inspiring day!
Wow…this is really really cool Alison! Thanks for showing how this layering can work!
I absolutely love this!! Coolest Christmas Tree ever!
Oh, that is so cool! I love the scales stencil used on the blank tree.
OOOH I'm so digging what your doing with the Stencils! AMAZING!