News Update and Card Variation

My news update is that both my Christmas Card tutorial and

my Wine Cork Christmas Tree tutorial made it onto

the One Pretty Thing website.

You can see my two contributions here and here.

That's exciting for me! BTW, there are tons of wonderful crafting

ideas on One Pretty Thing, both Christmas-y and other.

I had a comment on my blog post about the Christmas cards from

someone who suggested using magazine pages as a

source of paper for the trees. And that would

work really well, I'd think. Make it a great project for younger

kids, or for a larger group.

That made me think that other materials could be used for cutting

the trees/triangles. Like fabric! Duh, MissesStitches! I am a

quilter after all; I probably have a little

fabric on hand.

So I decided to make a few more cards using fabric triangles.

Here are some fabric triangles that I cut. They are lying on

my paper cutter, which has half-inch squares on it,

so you can see the approximate size.

Since I used a little gold paper to make some brighter trees,

I looked for some gold fabric to use. I know

I have some sparkly gold fabric somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

I found a couple fabrics that are gold-ish,

so they will have to do.

And here are the very small triangles cut out.

This photo shows the front of the card with fabric trees glued down...

and the inside of the card with three small trees.

I really liked using the fabric, as it created texture.

Again, I just used a glue stick to glue them down.

Unlike the paper, when I

applied the glue to the fabric it would sometimes

start to fray the edges a little bit. But I liked that, because it was

like adding pine needles to the trees!

Here's a close-up of one of the cards, where you can see some of

that fraying-edges stuff going on.

And these are the three cards I completed in just a few minutes this morning!