Saturday, September 22, 2012

Bookmarks XXVIII: Wintergreen

I'm pretty pleased with how the sparkly embossing powder worked on that Christmas tree.

On the other hand, I wish I'd had some teeny little presents at the same scale as the tree; that would have made a neat little scene. I should have just used some little squares of paper, but I keep forgetting that there are ways to make images that don't involve a stamp. Hopefully I'll remember that for the next time I use this tree.

I do like the background of the bookmark, though. I had fun weaving the washi tape and paper strips together, although you can really only see the effect once. It looks like a really fancy kind of thing you could do to put ribbons around a present.

I probably should have fussy cut the present, or paper pieced it or something. I'm a little sad about how much it disappears into its background and matting. Oh well, can't win 'em all, and the tree turned out really well.

I am entering this bookmark into the following challenges:

Supplies: (white 110lb. cardstock is from Staples, washi tape from Recollections/Michaels, and the middle-size green oval was cut from the packaging of the Christmas tree stamp.)

12 comments:

  1. Beautiful bookmark and all of the sparklies and green look amazing.

    Shelby

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  2. A very pretty bookmark and a great result with the paper weaving! Thank you for visiting my blog. Sue x

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  3. Very pretty bookmark! Thanks for joining us at Creative Card Crew, good luck!!

    hugs Vicky xxx

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  4. Great card !

    Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Challenge this week

    Hugs

    Jo x

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  5. Lovely weaving of the tape and paper. Pretty colors. Sweet bookmark. Glad you joined us at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week!

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  6. This is lovely. Great paper! Thanks so much for joining us this challenge at Creative Card Crew.

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  7. Love seeing what you've done with the washing tape, it's made a really effective bookmark.

    Thanks so much for sharing your lovely work with us at Penny Black and More challenge this month.

    B x

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  8. What a cool bookmark. The bold colours look great.

    Hugs
    Elle
    DT: Creative Card Crew

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  9. Ohhh a bookmark for Christmas... how creative!

    Thanks so much for joining with the Fashionistas this week... if you have not completed the blog hop, every one who enters and completes the hop is elidgable for each DT members blog prize AND the LOTV sponsor prize!! And then there is also a VOTING prize when the voting part of the challenge comes along... LOTS TO WIN!!!

    Hugs,
    Rina

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  10. What a super fun bookmark!! Perfect! Thank you so much for joining us at PaperPlay Challenges!! :)

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  11. Lovely bookmark, like the embossing/
    Thank you for joining the Early Christmas Makes challenge over at Penny Black and More @ Allsorts and good luck x Susan x

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