Another of my favorite stamp sets in the Holiday Catalog is the fabulous Festival of Trees along with it’s co-ordinating Tree punch…
I love that these co-ordinating items make my paper crafting life so much easier with no fussy-cutting required!
You can find Festival of Trees and the co-ordinating Tree Punch on pg 24 of the Holiday Catalog – and again, you can buy the Stamps & Punch as a BUNDLE at JUST $27.95 for both of them which saves you 15%!
Here is my card that I made using stamps & the punch along with a super cool technique that uses a baby wipe…I have a free printable tutorial showing you how to do this technique – find the link below…
I love using bold colors or a strong image against a plain white backdrop – you just don’t need to add anything fussy to create an eye catching card! ALL of the stamps that I used to make this card are from the set Festival of Trees…
The card base…is simply Whisper White onto which I layered a piece of Old Olive cardstock sized at 3 1/2″ x 2 3/4″…
The sentiment…simply stamped using Black Memento Ink (pg 212) directly onto the card base for a striking look…
The tree…isn’t that neat? For the base of it, I punched a black tree shape using my Tree Punch and attached it to a piece of Whisper White and then layered it onto a piece of Basic Black to give a framed look.
The stamped tree image…this is where I used the Baby Wipe Technique – it is fun & easy to do with just a few supplies – all you need is a baby wipe, ink refills and a solid stamp!
You add the ink randomly to the baby wipe which acts like an ink pad, and when you stamp your image you get a fabulous look – here is my ‘raw’ tree before I stamped over the top of it…
Because Festival of Trees is a two-step stamp set, you can stamp over the base image with another co-ordinating stamp – I did this and here is the result…
Isn’t that gorgeous?! I then trimmed off the ‘trunk’ and added it to my punched tree base and added the tree layer to my card using Dimensionals…
I love how clean & simple this card turned out but with the added twist of a little technique in there too!
WANT TO TRY THIS TECHNIQUE YOURSELF? I have a FREE Printable Tutorial that you can find by clicking HERE! You will find step-by-step instructions with photos so that you can try this find technique too!
Here are the images that you get in the set Festival of Trees and the Tree Punch – click on the blue words below to view in the online store…
- 137640 Festival of Trees Bundle – $27.95 – includes the Stamp Set AND the Punch and saves you 15%!
- 135059 Festival of Trees Stamp Set – $15.95
- 135859 Tree Punch – $16.95
Supplies used to make this card:
Stamps: Festival of Trees (135059)
BUNDLE: Festival of Trees (Stamp Set & Punch) (137640)
Punch: Tree (135859)
Cardstock: Whisper White (100730), Old Olive (100702), Basic Black (121045)
Ink Pad: Memento Black (132708)
Ink Refills: Old Olive (100531), Wild Wasabi(131160), Pear Pizazz (109020)
Misc: Dimensionals (104430), Baby Wipe
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