Last night I joined a group of co-workers, and we made 171 holiday cards to deliver to local nursing home residents. I love sharing my supplies and seeing everyone have fun creating.
Tonight I'm back in my studio making more the Christmas Tags for the 12 Days of Christmas Tags … for Day 10 I was inspried by Ardyth's Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Tag … only one problem … somehow I never bought that stamp set (into my cart it goes).
So instead, I looked through the bundle of Essentials by Ellen Stamps that I do own to see how I could make a bright, fun Christmas Tree. I thought I might stamp some patterns and then cut triangles, but then I saw there were two tiny tree dies in the Essentials by Ellen Season to Sparkle Dies. I used three fun Catherine Pooler Inks (Aquatini, Lime Rickey and Flirty Fuchsia) to stamp two of the patterns from Essentials by Ellen Pattern Play.
Instead of a masked circle, I made a circle tag using the Essentials by Ellen Alpine Snowfall Die on a scrap of designer paper and my 3" circle die cut. One of the patterns I stamped shifted a bit, but I sort of liked the effect, so I die cut a third tree from the reject … it's to remind me that things don't have to be perfect to be beautiful (a good reminder in all the chaos this time of year).
I finished with a bright ribbon and sticker sentiment.
I'm also linking-up at the Global Design Project where the theme is O Christmas Tree.