Hey everyone! Welcome to Satur-YAY. We're celebrating the weekend by getting our craft on. I hope these projects will get your creative juices flowing!
Today I'll be making several projects featuring the Concord & 9th Take A Bough die. This die is so much fun and so versatile. I'm going to show you a few ways to use it today.
I'll start with walking you through the creation of these adorable trees. This die was designed to make these adorable 3-D trees.
For each of these trees, you'll need 12 of each size of the boughs. You're going to use these to create the various layers of the tree. You can as many, or as few of each layer as you want. For the large trees, I created two of each of the layer sizes. This gives a nice full tree. Don't worry! These are really easy...and I'm going to show you exactly how to assemble them in the video tutorial below.
You will need a 1/8 inch bamboo skewer for each tree you create. This will create your trunk and serve as the base for each of these trees.
If you want a smaller tree, all you have to do is eliminate the larger layers at the bottom.
After I created a few of my little trees, I thought it would be fun to use these boughs to create some cards as well. Nothing screams Christmas quite like pine boughs sprinkled with some red ornaments or berries.
The sentiments on my cards all come from the Concord & 9th O Christmas Tree stamp set. Such a lovely variety of beautiful Christmas sentiments in this stamp set.
I wanted to keep these cards very simple to really let the pine boughs and beautiful sentiments shine.
I arranged the pine boughs in various shapes to create a wreath, as well as some swags. Using a variety of sizes gives each of these arrangements lots of fullness. I tucked some foam adhesive between some of the layers as well to add dimension and keep all the layers from blending together.
Now let's talk about those berries...or ornaments....which ever you prefer. I created them using the Ranger Enamel Accents in Classic Cherry. You can apply this product directly to your project or you can use a craft sheet to make these little enamel dots in advance.
I squirted little drops of this right on to my non stick craft sheet and allowed them to dry. Then I used a little Matte Medium to apply these shiny little drops to my projects. I found that this was the best method for this particular arrangement. If you try to apply two drops directly from the bottle close together, they'll blob together and you'll end up with one giant berry instead of three separate embellishments.
I created several cards...all with the same elements. Each has a very simple layout. I love the classic Christmas feel of these projects.
I think this would also be a great accent on gift tags for the holidays.
It's your turn to create now! Get your crafty goodies out and put those creative wheels in motion. I'd love to see what you're creating. Share it on Instagram or Twitter using #EllenHutsonSaturYAY so we call all see what you're up to.
Don't forget to check out the video tutorial below. I've also linked all the products used in these projects below.
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed all of these projects featuring the Concord & 9th Take A Bough die. I know I had a great time playing with it.
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