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Today's post includes both Christmas giftbags and Christmas cards. And I had fun making them!
First up: For background I chose a Christmas-themed page from an out-of-date hymnal; after cutting it out with decorative Fiskars, I watercolored it green.
Atop that, I added stencil-printed paper cut into shapes that, once assembled, form a Christmas tree.
Below: a close-up of the collage .....
Stencils that I used in printing the paper for forming the tree:
For the following two Christmas cards, I cut my Christmas tree and candle shapes from prints made with the same two stencils shown above.
Close-ups:
At one time I bought my cardstock blanks from JAMPaper.com; most of those had a built-in metallic sheen, like the green card above. (Now I have to search farther afield to find foldover cardstock blanks for my greeting card projects.)
The silver crown comes from a collection of similar decorations given to me a long time ago by a dear friend who has since passed away.
Swinging back to giftbags: I made the candle below by cutting paper printed with my 6" x 6" stencil Mimosa 6 s126--
The silver crown comes from a collection of similar decorations given to me a long time ago by a dear friend who has since passed away.
Swinging back to giftbags: I made the candle below by cutting paper printed with my 6" x 6" stencil Mimosa 6 s126--
I buy my blank giftbags here.
Today's giftbags are lined with plain white tissue paper, but to have more fun, I suggest printing your tissue paper using stencils -- but be careful to sparingly use heavy-body acrylic paint (plain or "metallic.") Giftwrap tissue is flimsy, so make your prints as gently as you can! (If you end up with a few torn scraps, save them for your future collage projects!)
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