I’m doing a little trunk show at a friend’s house on Thursday evening. I’m bringing lots of wintry soft toys – penguins in scarves and wool mice – but I thought I’d make a batch of tree cards to bring, too. I don’t do much Christmas crafting. We don’t celebrate Christmas and I feel a bit out of it when it comes to what people want to buy for this holiday. But I have a lot of green fabric scraps and the triangle tree shape has a simpleness to it that I like. It felt a bit funny to drop Roxy off at our synagogue nursery school this morning only to come home and and make Christmas cards, but hey.
I affixed the fabric to heavy weight rag paper with double sided fusible web and then added a glittery dot to the top of each tree and drew a brown trunk with
pencil to their bottoms. Then I rubbed the side of each card with the edge of a red or green stamp pad.
There is a great podcast over at Craftypod about making handmade cards. We have no iPod (I know, I know. We are late adopters around here), so I tend to sew up a bunch of soft toy body parts and then sit on the bed in the office where the computer is and listen to podcasts with a big bag of polyfill and stuff stuff stuff.
Amanda says
Very pretty! I like the detail of the red/green edging.
rebecca says
These are great, lovely fabrics – they are similar to some I made last year using old envelopes:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36348540@N00/247274671/
Might try my hand at some fabric ones too!
Christina says
Fantastic!
Tammy says
Hi! I know what you mean – I’m doing a craft show next week & about the only ‘Christmas’ type thing I have are the fish ornaments I’ve made. Besides not celebrating the holiday, I’d rather make things that would be on display or used longer than December – so hopefully whatever I’m bringing to sell – people will think of as good gift giving items.