good morning! today it's my turn to host transformation tuesday for papertrey ink. we all have cards that don't necessarily turn out the way we had envisioned or a project that we designed to be feminine that could be made masculine with a few tweaks, etc. i always love this chance to revisit an old card...
today, i decided to do something a little different. with holiday crafting gaining speed, i was inspired to take one of the tags from my recent design team tips post on 3D elements with symmetrical dies and transform it into an ornament. i love creating paper crafted ornaments as much as tags and everything else christmas related and the little alterations i made for this one were so easy.
i wanted a fully round tree, so this time instead of stamping three die cuts, i stamped six. the original tree was created from three and sat flat against the card, so i basically created two of those to sandwich the cord through. you can try adding a few more die cuts, but keep in mind that more means they're closer together and you may not see the stamped details as well.
i wanted the tree to hang or float in a frame, so i settled on the medium frame from pierced feature frames: oval. i cut two and stamped both of them with the same snowflake pattern from my original tag. i created a loop for the top with silver cord, leaving a long tail portion to sandwich between the two frames and the tree, using a couple of found beads to finish off the look and hold pieces in place.
the result is a simple, but sweet ornament that can be used as a package embellishment, given as a gift, or hung on my own tree. because i was creating it based on the tag, i used the same colors and patterns, but really there are so many possibilities with this style of ornament and i'm sure you could find a variety of stamps that would be fun to dangle from a frame and hang on your tree. have you found any great symmetrical die and stamp pairings to share since my tag article? i'm always looking for something fun and new!
happy stamping!
:) lexi