Forever Evergreen Leftovers!

And I am back... and I am fine (honest! Thanks for all the messages checking though...)

Sorry for the lack of posts for a couple of days... just a bit overwhelmed with things to do at the moment!!

So short and sweet today...

I know a lot of you have carefully kept the waste from your Forever Evergreen 3D trees and have been wondering what to do with them... apart from using it as a template and spraying ink through it... so here is another idea for you...

Either as a very large (almost) A4 card... or as a home decor piece... quickly dressed with some left over ornaments from decorating my trees...

This is the waste from the paler green tree... I just trimmed it down to 29.8cm tall and 20.5cm wide.... and covered it liberally with white ink direct from the pad to make the background as pale as possble.

I have then scored an A4 Garden Green card sheet PORTRAIT at 20.5cm so that I have an overlap to stick it onto another A4 Garden Green card sheet trimmed down to 20.5cm wide... and thus make ( an almost) A4 card...

Wonder what I might be sharing next.....

Seasonal Bells Part 3 - Not for Christmas again...

Now you may be noticing a bit of a theme with my copper foil Seasonal Bells creations!

Same layout... ever decreasing mats... Well this is why! One for the more frugal crafters....

Cut a Copper Foil mat... mine is 13.8 x 9.5cm which was for my Pine Boughs embossed card shared here.... 

And carefully "gut it"... ie cut a 1cm wide frame within it ... That becomes the second mat... Repeat and get the third mat. Size your white panels to fit...and there you have it 3 card mats from one piece of the stunning copper foil. 

Or in longer speak... just for the first "gutting"...

(1) Line up your foil mat at 1cm on the Top Bar of your trimmer... say PORTRAIT first...

(2) Cut from 1cm to 12.8cm (ie 1 cm from the bottom)

(3) Turn 90 degrees so now LANDSCAPE. Cut from 1cm to 8.5cm (ie 1 cm from the bottom)

(4) Turn 90 degrees so PORTRAIT again. Cut from 1cm to 12.8cm

(5) Turn 90 degrees so LANDSCAPE again. Cut from 1 cm to 8.5 cm

Added All God's Grace stamp set to the mix here for the Christening card... 

And amazingly... the 3rd and smallest mat was also the perfect size for our notecards! Ignore the fact that this mat is Cherry Cobbler... I just forgot to take a photo of the notecard with the foil mat!