Karen and I are excited to share with you and welcome Erin Quiding Sampson to our Design Team! We are thrilled to have Erin join our design team. Make sure to stop by her blog to see more of her wonderful creations.
Read below as Erin shares with you her Christmas Tree Set project.
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I’m thrilled to share
my very first project, for the SRTC design team. I’ve used 3
packages of the Scribble Triangle Tree Set
to create a Christmas décor piece.
This would make a great gift and
look great on the mantle, a side table, or as part of a gorgeous
centre piece.
The first step is to
lightly coat one side of each triangle and a 3” by 9 1/4” piece
of chipboard with gesso. Set aside until dry. using
a small container to mix together 1-part pearl ex in the colour super
russet to 2 parts holographic
embossing powder.
Using a VersaMark stamp
pad, stamp over the now dried gesso on the triangles. Cover the
triangle with the embossing mixture. Tap off excess powder, then melt
with your heat gun. Do the same for the remaining triangles, then
set aside.
I used white snowflake
shaped brads that I held with tweezers dipped the top on the
VersaMark stamp pad then dipped the brad
into the holographic embossing powder.
I then melted the powder
with the heat gun and quickly, while still hot, dipped it into the
powder and melted second and 3rd
time until I felt the brad was well coated and shone nicely. Repeat
with the other 2 brads.
Next, I used a glue pen
to adhere vellum, to the backside of each triangle. Gather together each of
the small, medium and large triangles. Use a glue gun to run a bead
of glue down the long side of one triangle, press a second edge to
edge, run another bead down the second piece and press the 3rd
triangle into place, glue the first and the 3rd
pieces together to create a tree shape. Create 2 more
trees with the remaining triangles.
I created the base by
coving the large chipboard piece with a liquid glue and then pouring
fake snow over the top. Press down and allow to dry for a minute.
Shake off excess snow, then fill in spots I felt needed more by
adding a little more liquid glue and more snow.
I then turned the board
over, using a exacto knife I created 3 equally spaced holes down the
center to feed the battery-operated lights into. The string of lights
had 10 LED’s on it. I chose to put 4 into the large tree, and 3
into the medium and small trees. Tape or glue the lights to the
bottom of the board to keep in place.
I then added iridescent
pearls down each of the 3 sides of the trees and around the edge of
the base.
Stick the brad fasteners
into the top of each tree and adhere with hot glue, before placing it
on the board. Once I was happy with the placement, I used hot glue to
adhere the trees to the board.
Turn the lights on and
enjoy!
Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:
Thanks for joining me today!
- Erin
Awesome Trees Erin! I love these.
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