Christmas Cards -continued

More uses for the tag punch with simple embellishments. (Also- I love that script stamps exist, it seems that whenever I try really hard to write something nice and pretty and permanent, it looks like a cross between a doctor's signature and a toddler's left hand.)

Christmas cards!

I wanted to try and move away a little bit from the over-embellished. I love my craft supplies, I really do. In fact every trip to Hobby Lobby for one thing ends up a pile in my shopping bag because apparently everything I ever wanted was on sale. 

But just because I have a lot of stickers doesn’t necessarily mean it all has to look like I spilled glue on my page and rolled it around in the sticker/cutout drawer, which in my supply is the craft-herpes drawer. Those little buggers work their way onto EVERYTHING. *Sigh* I digress- Basic and rustic Christmas cards!

(And a tag to go along with!)

The star players; 

• One stamp! One! (Which is becoming my favorite thing for the season)
• One brown paper card
• One brown paper rectangle, cut slightly smaller than the card
• Green embossing powder (and embossing ink pen)
• Chalks
• Not pictured; Tag punch, and little foam stickers to raise the page. I guess I lied, I did use stickers.

I find that when using a large stamp for its borders it’s a lot easier to line it up while it’s flipped over and press with my fingers.

The chalk was an afterthought, it just helped add texture and dimension to the plain paper and enhance the 3D effect of the cutout.

This one used even less stuff, all pictured here.

ne used even less stuff, all pictured here.

Beginning.

I’m not interesting. Well, I am interesting. Depending on who you talk to I can be described as both funny, weird and funny, ha-ha. Regardless I have never considered myself interesting enough to have a blog and use that as a platform to thrust my every thought and opinion into the abyss of the internet. 

And frankly I still won’t. I’d like to keep up my own momentum to keep making art like I used to, in every form. So I plan on putting together an arsenal of art inspiration for myself, and possibly inspire equally craftiness from others.

Expect to see arts and craft projects, artist techniques and ideas, and simple projects.