Sunday, November 25, 2012

Cover Art Trees

It's time for the monthly Papertrey Ink blog hop!  This time we were given the challenge to create a card based on book cover art with the following inspiration photo as a jumping point.


The Wizard of Oz cover immediately caught my eye with its colorful graphic characters and black background.  I experimented quite a bit before I came up with this card.  My first thought was to do the cool stacked words, but I don't have any large PTI sentiments or alphabet dies.  So I did the next best thing.  I used my Wonderful Words: Holiday die to cut the word "merry" from two different colors and glued them together to look shaded.  I embossed the word "christmas" on a narrow strip of green underneath.


Please excuse the picture.  I had to take it indoors since the sun went down before I finished, and I just couldn't get it to turn out right.  The card is much better-looking in person!!  I need to rig up a photo tent with lamps for future situations like this.  I'll take another picture in the morning.

Edited to add much better pictures.  :)



I diecut several trees using cardstock in the same colors as the characters on the Wizard of Oz book cover and then stamped a swirl pattern on each in their matching colors.  To mimic the blue outline, I drew a frame of glue on the black mat and sprinkled it with blue glitter.  I glittered a blue star to place over the center tree as well.

This certainly was an interesting experiment.  It's not quite what I originally pictured in my head, but I kept playing until I was happy with the result.  Definitely a non-traditional Christmas card!   :)

Stamps:  Merry & Bright, Merry & Bright Additions, Tree Trimming Trio (Papertrey Ink)
Paper:  Lemon Tart, True Black, Spring Rain, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Orange Zest (Papertrey Ink)
Ink:  New Leaf, Summer Sunrise, Lemon Tart, Spring Rain (Papertrey Ink); VersaMark
Misc:  Wonderful Words: Holiday die, Merry & Bright die (Papertrey Ink); white embossing powder; Blue Topaz glitter (Martha Stewart)  

12 comments:

  1. This is fabulous! I love the non-traditional Christmas colors. This is very professional looking. Great job! :)

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  2. Love the colors set against the black background!

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  3. You have produced a great card! The color palette works and I love the layered "merry".

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  4. Very non traditional card with the yellow and black but it looks amazing and will stand out as special against other cards!

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  5. Love your Christmas trees in non-traditional colours.

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  6. Love it, a striking title, and such clean, graphic trees. Really fits the whole design well.

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  7. Love your striking design -the star is placed perfectly.

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  8. Love your glittered border and star ... just makes your great card even better!!

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  9. Love everything about this card-the elements, the layout and the way you did the text.

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  10. Well, your efforts paid off as far as I'm concerned, Ann! I love your shadow "Merry" and your pretty swirly trees. Very well done!!

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