Pine Tree Punch for As You See It Challenges

The lovely and talented Jan Clothier came up with a sketch for our As You See It Challenge this week and it's great for giving you a head start and letting you run with it. Still on a quest to create samples for my Christmas buffet class, I got out my *Pine Tree Punch and my *Wrapped in Plaid Specialty Designer Series Paper to see what I could create.

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

Here's the As You See It Challenge #207 banner:

And here's what I did with it:

• Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce and Gold - the epitome of Christmas colours! I love this combination. It's so rich!
• I've used the *Wrapped in Plaid Specialty Designer Series Paper on the Shaded Spruce base and then used the *Shaded Spruce/Gold 3/8" Striped Ribbon as the dividing line in the sketch.
• I punched three pine trees out of one of the patterns in the *Wrapped in Plaid DSP, intending to fold each of them in half and join one half of one to half of another and create a 3D tree in the process. What I didn't realize was that the *Pine Tree Punch was asymmetrical, so that opposite sides of the tree didn't match up exactly. Because the backside of this pattern was a white plaid design, it really showed up. What I ended up doing was using the Dark Shaded Spruce Stampin' Blends Marker to colour in the white parts that showed and all the paper edges so that it wasn't noticeable. It just gave the tree a little more depth in the end.  
• The first and last halves of the trees were glued to the Whisper White scallop circle, die cut from the Layering Circles Dies, to make the 3D shape.
• The sentiment, from the *Perfectly Plaid stamp set is embossed on the DSP with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder.

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

This would be a fun sketch to play with over the weekend! It doesn't have to be a Christmas card. It can be anything. Have some fun with it!

I will be away at my daughter's next week, so may not have a full week of posts! I'll be enjoying my grandkids! There will for sure be a post next Tuesday night, which you will likely see on Wednesday morning, but other than that, no promises! Have a great weekend!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

*Perfectly Plaid Photopolymer Stamp Set (En) [149418] $22.00	*Perfectly Plaid Bundle (En) [151143] $41.25	*Wrapped In Plaid 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [149596] $20.00	Shaded Spruce 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146981] $12.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25
Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $8.25	Shaded Spruce Dark Stampin' Blends [147937] $6.00	*Shaded Spruce/Gold 3/8" (1 Cm) Striped Ribbon [149597] $9.50	Gold Faceted Gems [144141] $6.75
Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	*Pine Tree Punch [149521] $24.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50
Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

Perfectly Plaid for Kylie's Demonstrator Training August Blog Hop

Thanks for stopping by!  Today I'm participating in Kylie's Demonstrator Training August Blog Hop.  I'm so excited to be part of this training program and happy to participate in my third Blog Hop with them! The purpose of the group is for the group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators that are part of the program...to share ideas and to learn from each other...to help us in our Stampin' Up! Business.

Today you will "hop around the world" and check out the amazing projects created by these very talented demonstrators.  You are currently visiting Heather Cooper from British Columbia, Canada.  Please take some time to check out all of the blogs on the list below!

I'm using the *Perfectly Plaid Bundle for my sample today. I've paired it up with some *Wrapped in Plaid Specialty 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper and I've even managed to throw in the *Merry Moose Bundle. Three for the price of one!!  Here it is:

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

• On the card base of  Shaded Spruce cardstock, I added a piece of Night of Navy cardstock.
• I stamped a panel of Whisper White cardstock with the realistic tree image from the *Perfectly Plaid stamp set by inking it up in Shaded Spruce and stamping a couple of times without reinking to create the depth of a small woods. I also varied the level of the base of each tree to help create that same depth.
• Near the base of that piece of Whisper White I added a length of *Cherry Cobbler 3/8" (1 cm) Diagonal Striped Ribbon, using Snail or stronger double sided tape or glue dots to adhere it to the back of the panel. Then the panel can be glued to the card front.
• On a separate piece of Whisper Whisper White, I stamped the solid moose image (I had to get him in - I'm Canadian, after all!) from *Merry Moose stamp set in Soft Suede using the Stamparatus to be sure I got a solid image.  And I stamped the sentiment from the *Perfectly Plaid stamp set in Cherry Cobbler. It was the first time I used the sentiment, and because I know how Cherry Cobbler can stain photopolymer stamps, so I cleaned it using the new Stamp Cleaning Pad. Wow! What a difference! Barely any colour left at all!! Both of these were punched out, the moose with the coordinating *Moose Punch and the sentiment with the Timeless Label Punch.

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

• I cut a strip of the *Wrapped in Plaid DSP to add to the card front as shown using dimensionals and I used the *Pine Tree Punch to punch a tree out of the same DSP, trim off the trunk and attach as shown to the card front, also with dimensionals. I used mini dimensionals on the moose and had to trim down some of the edge of the dimensional border into thin strips to use on the legs.
• The sentiment is glued down and I took some Gold Metallic Thread and doubled it, then threaded it through a couple of *Jingle Bells for an embellishment.

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

I hope you enjoyed this project and that you will check out the other blogs in this August Hop:



Happy Stampin'!
Heather


Product List

*Perfectly Plaid Photopolymer Stamp Set (En) [149418] $22.00	*Perfectly Plaid Bundle (En) [151143] $41.25	*Merry Moose Photopolymer Stamp Set [150494] $22.00	*Merry Moose Bundle [153015] $41.25	*Wrapped In Plaid 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [149596] $20.00
Shaded Spruce 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146981] $12.00	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100867] $12.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [147083] $10.25	Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad [147088] $10.25
Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $10.25	*Cherry Cobbler 3/8" (1 Cm) Diagonal Stripe Ribbon [150439] $10.25	*Jingle Bells [149598] $6.75	Gold Metallic Thread [138401] $4.75	Stamparatus [146276] $67.00
Stamp Cleaning Pad [147047] $10.25	*Pine Tree Punch [149521] $24.00	*Moose Punch [150652] $24.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.