tree cards

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.