People who have been making a lot of Christmas cards and projects by now probably have a lot of scraps of paper (depending on how many scraps you hoard!). This Scrappy Merriest Christmas Tree Card is a great way to use those scraps!
The card base is Old Olive but you could choose almost any color, possibly depending on the colors in your scraps. Even something neutral like Crumb Cake would probably work. I diecut a piece of Basic White cardstock with the largest tree in the Merriest Trees Dies in the Holiday Mini. Instead of using the diecut tree, I used the negative. You could also do this in green.
For scraps, at first, I pulled out all my Christmas papers, but as it turned out, I only used scraps from the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper because I’d worked with it earlier in the day. you don’t even need too many but you do need a strip that will go across the width of the bottom of the tree. I cut mine at 1/2″ wide. You could also use scraps of ribbon and I may try that another day! I know we all have SO much excess ribbon!!
On the back of the negative piece, I applied Stampin’ Seal Adhesive all around the border of the cutout tree. I didn’t even trim down the scraps lengthwise. You can just place them and trim off the excess afterward. Even though I was putting them close together, from the front there seemed to be slight gaps but I knew those wouldn’t show with the green Old Olive background. You probably want to keep the strips straight or else put them on a diagonal.
After trimming off the lengths of the scraps, I applied Stampin’ Seal Adhesive (you could use the Multipurpose Glue) on the back of the card, across all the strips, and then adhered it to the card base.
To finish the card, I stamped a greeting from the Merry & Bright Stamp Set in Real Red on a scrap strip of Basic White and trimmed it down to fit on a layer of Old Olive, then adhered to the card below the tree.
Of course, I had to do some embellishing! I put a Star Trinket (no longer available) at the top, which didn’t photograph very well, but looks really nice. Then I started playing with the Adhesive-Backed Glitter Sequins and probably didn’t stop soon enough! I put white ones around the tree to maybe look like snow and I put green ones on the tree to give it some sparkle! These are retiring but are still in the Online Store as I write this so I would recommend putting a package or two on your next order because they will be good year round and being flat, are great for mailing!
Check out your paper scraps (or ribbon scraps) and see what you come up with! Every card could be different!
