Furry Cat Designs - Karen Henderson - independent UK Stampin' Up! demonstrator: Black and White Spruced Up Tree

Tuesday 1 November 2022

Black and White Spruced Up Tree - GDP367

Hello and welcome to my blog! Today, I am participating in the Theme Challenge over at the Global Design Project. The theme this week is all about trees.

Initially, I made this card for one of the challenges in a Training Day that I recently attended with Julie Sutcliffe at the Paper Haven. The challenge was to create a black and white card with a pop of colour. Using the Spruced Up Bundle and the Celebrate Everything papers I made a Christmas card featuring black and white trees, which works perfectly with the #GDP367 challenge this week.

I trimmed some of the tree paper, matted it onto a slightly bigger piece of Basic Black before adding to a Basic White card base. For the pop of colour I chose Polished Pink. I coloured the DSP using the Dark Polished Pink Blend to fill in the stars and also added splatters of sparkle from my Wink of Stella pen.

The dies are magnificent in this set. With one pass through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine you are rewarded with a solid and an outline image - I cut one each in black and white. (I used adhesive sheet to make it easier to adhere the outlines!) To add some texture to the solid white tree I embossed it using one of the Wintry 3-d folders. Finally, I added a Polished Pink banner, cut with the Stylish Shapes dies, and white heat embossed the Happy Christmas sentiment.

The design is simple, yet striking and it's economical in its use of DSP. Overall it is quite flat, even though it has texture and layers, making it cheaper to post! It is an easy card to mass produce, and I forsee more of them using different pops of colour!

I hope that you are inspired by my card today. If you have been inspired, I would love to hear from you so please leave a comment.

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Thank you for joining me today! Looking forward to seeing you next time.

Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,

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