Cuttlebug Holiday Folders: Ornaments

Welcome back. This post was to have gone up mid December. Life does not always go as planned. Santa did not bring a new camera for me so I will have to get my own. Until then no photos, sorry.


So let me begin by saying Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and Happy New Year. This is going to be your best year yet.


 I know you thought I had forgotten about the remaining holiday folders. NO WAY. I have just been having a great time playing with a lot of my tools and ordering new stuff like crazy. In this post I would like to share some of the things which resulted from the ornaments Cuttlebug folder.


There is much talk about using glossy cardstock and so I tried it with this folder and here are the results. (at some point a photo will appear here)




I wanted to create a resist technique but the angel nor the greeting showed as well as I had hoped, so I resorted to stamping, embossing, and cutting her out. I then mounted her to the card front using foam pads. The green paper background is a floral swirl that I overstamped with a red swirl. It turned out darker than I wanted, but again it is part of why I do the Learning Lab Vee-dios...to learn. I added the Christmas Skittles collection to the hanger of each ornament.


I played with a lot of my Sakura pens to test how each would perform on the card. Although the opague pens were different, the stardust pens gave the sparkly glitter results befitting the season. At Christmas everything needs to sparkle and shine. I cut a larger ornament from acetate using the Cricut Very Merry Tags mini cart and decorated it using the same Sakura stardust pen and stamped my greeting in the center with StazOn black.


From my playing around, I realized that I liked the black and white look from the sample card and decided to use my brayer to cover an entire card and make it black/white, with a silver accent.


Finally, I cut apart the ornament strips to use them as borders on a scrapbook page.




These folders are extremely versatile once you start looking at them as tools. When deciding on a purchase I have to immediately think of at least three different ways to use it or I do not buy it. This allows for a lot of variety in my crafting. 


My main staple is pure white cardstock. I can turn it into whatever I desire. I have thought up hundreds of ways to use it and pick up some whenever I am out.


I know that sometimes looking at that large blank canvass can be overwhelming, but for me it is a challenge to think outside of the box.


Thanks again for visiting my blog and if you have not checked out the latest Vee-dio it is the first one at the top of the Videos list.


As you get ready to prepare your Christmas cards, tags, or place settings, throw on a bit of ink and your guest will praise your handiwork. Why? Because it will be in the name of love.


Until then.