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Folk Art Holiday
Cards the Digital Way!
Do you long
to have that truly handmade
look on your Christmas cards
with very minimal work? These
two cards demonstrate simple,
yet elegant paper-piecing made
easy. By simply printing
papers, doing a bit of cutting
and piecing, scanning, and
then digitally placing
embroidery elements, etc. you
will have a handmade card that
can be printed for personal
use as often as you desire!
OR, create the cards totally
digitally and print final
piece. See below for
paper/digital combination
instructions.
Christmas
Tree Card -
1. From
Happy Holidays Page Pak, open
and print the following papers
at 8x8 on white cardstock:
olive fleur paper, olive chalk
paper, olive script paper, and
tan chalk paper.
2. Cut 4
squares from the green papers
at 2x1.5” to create triangles.
Cut a .5"x.5" brown piece for
tree trunk.
3. Adhere
tree and trunk pieces to a
piece of tan cardstock cut at
4x5”. Using a decorative
scissor, trim closely around
tree. Adhere this to a piece
of olive chalk paper cut at
the same size. Adhere this to
a piece of the tan chalk paper
cut at 4.25x5.25”.
4. Scan
this piece and save in your
image editing software.
5.
Digitally crop a piece of the
red and green striped paper to
5.5x6” and begin digitally
layering the green script
paper and your saved tree
piece.
6.
Digitally Add “V” embroidery
stitches to tree triangles and
trunk.
7. Add
snowflakes, button and word
art. Print as desired.
Stocking
Card -
1. From
Happy Holidays Page Pak, open
and print the following papers
at 8x8 on white cardstock: red
chalk paper, plaid paper,
olive script paper, and tan
chalk paper.
2. Cut out
stocking shapes from solid red
paper and other stocking
pieces from red and green
plaid paper freehand.
3. Glue the
stocking together and adhere
to tan paper, cut at 43/4 x
51/2”.
4. Scan
this piece and save in your
image editing software.
5.
Digitally crop a piece of the
red chalk paper to 5.5x6” and
begin digitally layering the
green script paper, and your
imported/saved stocking piece.
6.
Digitally add burlap
embroidery stitch to the
stocking top, toe and heel. On
the curved pieces, I used
three stitches at a time by
repeatedly duplicating the
layer.
7.
Digitally add ribbons,
buttons, snowflakes, flourish
and word art. Print as
desired.
Note: I
used a sanding block to
lightly sand both the stocking
and tree prior to scanning.
This is optional.
Beth Ervin, Co-Editor
CottageArts.net
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