When I saw the new challenge at Peace on Earth Christmas March Challenge #83, I loved the green and ivory gifts in the lower left quadrant and knew I wanted to wrap some Christmas packages to place under the tree.
I still have quite a few sheets of this old BasicGrey "Jovial" printed paper that I promise myself ever year to use up, but somehow it doesn't happen. To give you an idea about how long I've had it in my stash, the lower edge of it is dated 2010! I think the best solution, as I did here with this card, is to also make a coordinating envelope.
I used a black 5-1/2" square top-folded card base and glued on a 5" square of the printed paper. I cut a square of ivory heavy textured watercolor paper, using the deckled edge for the bottom of the top panel. I die cut one of Tim Holtz's trees from the same ivory stock and glued it to the face of the top panel after stamping the sentiment with PTI "Ripe Avocado" ink. I glued the top panel to the card face and added the packages that I had fussy cut from the printed paper, using some dimensional foam with the the top package layers for some dimension. For the final "wrap-up", I added some avocado twine to the top edge of the card, which also serves to hold a folded vellum page inside the card.
Peace On Earth Christmas : March 2025 Peace On Earth Challenge #83
And what pretty packages you created, Fran! This is a wonderful card!
ReplyDeleteFabulous Fran, so creative and pretty packages!! I want to know what's in them lol!!
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