2015 Christmas - Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees is so versatile and fun. Today I wanted to show you how much fun with two cards featuring the tree in three dimension.  Mary created this stunning red, white and blue... the first in a recent class...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

This is my creation for class... 

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Soft and subtle, in colours of Lost Lagoon and Soft Sky. 

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

 The background is embossed with the Gently Falling embossing folder by Stampin' Up!


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

The tree is formed by adhering three trees together.  Simply stamp and punch out three trees, fold them in half on them selves and then glue one half to the opposite half of another and repeat.  I hope this You Tube video helps out!  You can then adhere this to your project.



Yours in paper craft,

2015 Christmas - Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Welcome to my tenth post for Christmas giving.  Today we are again using the ever versatile Festival of Trees and coordinating Tree Punch by Stampin' Up!   Grab a cuppa and browse at these creations. This card is in the colours of Garden Green and Cherry Cobbler...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

This layout was again CASEd from my favourite website, Pinterest, so be sure to check out my Pinterest board for cards featuring Christmas Trees. 

 A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

 This is Old Olive and Real Red...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

 Love the 3D Designer Series Paper (DSP) Christmas tree...

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A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

From greens to Crumb Cake and again the embossed background was sponged in the coordinating ink colour - crumb cake...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

I love the red glitter painted around the circumference of the Red circle which was sponged with White craft ink...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

Back to Old Olive and Real Red...I used the Banner punch to create the banners under the Circle of Real Red...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

The Bird Builder was used to create the foliage poking out  from the Real Red circle highlight...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees with Lucky Star Embossing folder

But wait there is more, I will showcase more layouts highlighting the Festival of Trees, created by myself and by my A Crafty Cat team over the next week. 


 



Yours in paper craft,

2015 Christmas - Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees is a versatile set and on of my personal favourites for Christmas and this is an example of why.  


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

I created this card to showcase the Textured Impressions Embossing Folder - Gently Falling... 


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Rose Christian created this inspiring card in Wild Wisabi and with Real Red highlights...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees x Rose Christian

The card is beautifully layered and the embossed background created with the Elegant Dots Embossing Folder, adds another dimension...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees x Rose Christian

Thank you to Rose for another beautiful creation and allowing me to show case it on my blog.

Do you want to create in a class with like minded paper crafters?  Check out my Workshop & Classes schedule above and let me know when you would like to attend and join the team of A Crafty Cat.

Yours in paper craft,

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Festival of Trees is presented in the same layout as the Christmas Santa Owl but what a difference a forest of trees makes in contrast to Santa!  These are some of the beautiful creations from my Christmas Card Class....

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

A different layout for the greeting utilising Stampin' Up! oval and Scallop oval punches...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

Place the scallop circle differently and you have a very effective shadow...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

The trees were layered and one highlighted with Dimensionals and Gold Glitz (glitter glue)


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

and then we decided to dress it up with a line of gold twine...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

My very simple creation :-)...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festival of Trees

The very best thing about this stamp set is that it has a coordinating punch - gotta LOVE that!
and this is just purrrfect for creating Christmas cards.

Yours in paper craft

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament 2

This post features the fun Benjamin had with the clay by Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay.  These are all of the ornaments we created out of ONE packet of Clay - less than $1.00 per ornament AUS and not to mention the fun we had and the passing of a couple of hours!...

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornaments

Ben made worms, snakes, caterpillar, a snail, birds and much more before he made his ornaments for his friends...First he stamped and stamped and stamped, then he discovered fingerprints...

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

We used ink on his thumb and then finger straight from the reinker and stamped his thumb then finger gently into the clay... Ben wanted to add the features and did so with the Blendabilities and a pencil - hence the holes...

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

And I had to take a photo with the two he started with, bottom far left and right hand sides.  These he felt weren't as fun as his second attempt of multiple stamping and inking, then as I said he discovered finger prints and Ben wants to make up a heap of these now LOL.

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

Enjoy and I look forward to seeing you at tomorrow's post.

Yours in craft,

2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

Stamping' Up! has a amazing product called Simply Pressed Clay and after a string of workshops with my customers making beautiful Christmas tree ornaments of their own, I thought it time for Ben and I to make our own.

These are some of the examples made in class...

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

The above features Stampin' Up! "Bright and Beautiful" WM135026/CM135029 where as below features Stampin' Up! "Endless Wishes" 136829 - words are from Endless Wishes


A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

This uses stamps from Stampin' Up! "Endless Wishes" and "Cheerful Christmas"


A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

FYI we made 18 ornaments in total, (not all shown) from one packet of clay, that equates to less than $1.00each! Not bad at all I say...

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

 Ben and I painted these straight from the reinker as a contrast to straight white...we literally just ran the tip of the reinker (Baja Breeze) over the ornament and little fingers coloured with his finger over them ...


A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

 We coloured some clay as show below and we stamped inked images too (Cherry Cobbler - Christmas tree tinsel from "Festival of Trees")


A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

 Endless Wishes...


A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

 Endless Wishes and Festival of Trees...


A Crafty Cat: 2014 Christmas Stampin' Up! Simply Pressed Clay, Christmas tree ornament

Hints and Tips

• If your clay is sticky, roll into palm size balls and sit for 5 minutes before using.
• Roll out on silicon mat and use acrylic blocks to flatten out shape
• It may help to dust down work area with anti static pillow to prevent clay sticking to surfaces.
• Continually turn clay from side to side/over and over, so that you work both sides and minimise sticking, when pressing out with acrylic block
• Once the shape you desire is obtained, leave sit for a few minutes again to let it cure a little more.
• When stamping, some say dust stamp with anti static pillow, but if left long enough to dry the stickiness out, the stamp will not stick.
• When stamping use with even pressure and press only enough to produce an imprint.  Press too firmly and the stamp will stick.
• Layers do stick on one another if added before clay is dry and remember to add your hole within in the first hour of drying, I found the embossing too the most useful /successful.
• Have fun with it and don't get upset when you re roll your project because the stamping went horribly wrong LOL, something better will come and this definitely took me some practice.

What fun we had today, I hope you enjoyed this ornament creation post, Ben's will be in his own post tomorrow.

Yours in paper craft and clay,