Here is another craft that is positively gorgeous, but it is one I personally don’t enjoy doing as much as stamping, embossing, die-cutting and the many wonderful techniques we can employ using our products.
This is a 2-1/2″ circle punch in the middle of a piece of Whisper White Card Stock. Traditional Iris-folding technique is so named because it resembles the iris of a camera lens. We work on the backside of the die-cut or punched out piece. Using a pattern, we basically follow the numbers and lay down folded pieces of four different thin paper (florist foil or gift wrap) to create this image.
A plain circle wouldn’t be that interesting, so I added an ornamental corner sticker a piece of red twine and a bow to the creation to make it look like a Christmas Ornament.
I sponged the edges in Real Red and stamped the message in Real Red ink. Then the White piece is mounted on a piece of Real Red Card Stock and a Whisper White base.
This is a Paper-Folded Christmas Tree. This is created the same exact way as the Iris-folding technique above, but this is design follows a herring bone pattern. Using gold, silver and green fancy foils and papers, working from the bottom up, the papers are folded on a numbered line in a pattern and it creates this little treasure. The star atop the tree is also die-cut and I’ve used Champagne Glimmer Paper to “fill” the star and a piece of dark brown paper for the pot.
The outline is created with a non-Stampin’ Up framelit. Hard to see in the picture, but I’ve added a strip of gold foil stickers and the tiny words in gold foil stickers of Merry Christmas.
This card is 5 x 6-1/2″, so it’s larger than our standard A-2 cards.
Thanks for looking!
Carole
