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Monday, August 6, 2012

Trim the Tree Christmas Card

Created this Trim the Tree Christmas Card using Spellbinders, green color scheme & metal for the tree ornaments. Used my makingmemories punch to make the holes to put the gold round mini brads thru.

Front of card before Tree is trimmed:


















After Tree is trimmed by using gold brads for ornaments & white enamel accents and white glitter on Tree star:






















Closeups:
 





























enamel accents: white
glitter: white
ink: Memento Cottage Ivy
metal: JoAnn Craft Essentials gold round mini brads
paper:
core'dinations cardstock
DCWV Christmas matstack 
punch: makingmemories hole punch - 
to make holes to put the gold round mini brads thru
Spellbinder: Shapeabilities Fanciful Holiday
stamp: Whimsical Designs Snow Much Fun

Entering this into the following challenges: 

2 Sisters Ch103 Anything Goes 8/4-10
A Blog Named Hero Ch#9 Freestyle unlim 8/1-11
Catch the Bug Aug Anything Goes unlim 8/4-10
Crafts and Me Ch95 Green with Envy 8/1-8
Craft Your Passion Ch122 Anything Goes lim3 1st 8/6-12
DLART Happy Birthday Linky Party Anything Goes unlim 8/2-31
Hooked On Crafts Ch23 Let's Celebrate unlim 7/30-8/25
Love to Create Ch27 Punches & Dies lim3 1st 8/6-12
Paper Crafting Journey Anything Goes Ch lim6 4th 8/2-9/12
Paper Play Ch Wk31 Layer It Up! unlim 8/2-8   
Party Time Tues PTT79 Anything Goes unlim 7/31-8/6 

Pile It On PIO32 Add Some Metal 8/5-11
Ribbon Carousel RCC64 Christmas in July 7/31-8/6
The Pink Elephant TPE160 Just Use Ribbon unlim 8/6-12
Totally Papercrafts Ch128 Monochrome 8/3

17 comments:

  1. Very pretty! Like the extra dimension the little brads bring.

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  2. Great card! Thanks for joining us at Love to Create. NancyD

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  3. oh so cute card
    thanks for playing with us at paperplay this week
    hugs
    céline

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  4. Now that is a cool way to trim the tree! Very creative Melissa!
    I'm glad you joined in at Craft Your Passion.
    ~ginny

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  5. great card. i love that diecut tree!

    Thank you so much for playing along with our challenge!

    Good luck

    Linda
    A Blog Named Hero

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  6. Lovely Holiday card!! Thanks so much for joining us this week at The Pink Elephant!!

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  7. Gorgeous card. Thanks for joining us at Crafts and Me this week. luv gina xx

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  8. Super card, Thanks for playing along with our Mono challenge at TPC x Carol

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  9. Such a LOVELY card!!
    Thank You for joining us at PIO this week!
    Have a GREAT day!

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  10. Beautiful Holiday card! Thanks for playing along with us this week with our Punches and/or Die challenge at Love to Create,

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  11. pretty card thanks for joining us at 2sisters this week good luck with the challenge Tracy x

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  12. What an awesome and totally gorgeous card!!! I love everything about it:-) Thanks for joining in the fun at Paper Play this week:-)
    Hugs
    Karen
    xxx

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  13. Thanks so much for joining us on Bugaboo's "Anything Goes" Challenge at the Catch the Bug blog. I wish you good luck and hope to see you enter the next challenge too!
    luv'n huggz
    Jen Leeflang
    Bugaboo DT

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  14. Great idea!
    Thanks for playing with us a Pile It On!
    Helen x

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  15. very cool card...like how it came out...beautiful and elegant..thanks for sharing.Metal business cards.

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