Pink snowflake trees

Back at the start of January, I couldn’t decide whether to do something with the leftover Christmas card makings or just tidy up and create some space for creating new stuff.

What actually happened was that I did make a handful of Christmas cards from the leftovers and then I went on to make another four cards (birthdays and Valentine’s) and three textile pieces by the start of March. Those were followed by another birthday card, two Mother’s Day cards, two Easter cards, and an embroidered butterfly. Oh and I finished off a Stitch Club project that I started last May.

What I didn’t do was tidy up. I straighten things up a little between projects, but as soon as I start the next thing… chaos reigns again. I would like to take some time to actually reorganise stuff so that my textile supplies are less spread around the room, but I know doing that will be harder than it sounds.

So I have been really quite productive so far this year (don’t ask how big the blog backlog is though, at least I have kept on top of doing all the photos) and the productivity started with these three pink trees.

I had been planning on making some snowflake trees like this last year, but then I decided to give myself a break and dig into my card stash rather than making all new cards. I had used a lot of snowflakes, but I had die-cut even more than I needed, so this seemed like a good place to start.

The tree shapes were cut from super shiny metallic card, which I overlaid with a triangle of apple green Sizoflor (and I had to dig back to 2018 in my email archive to find out what that was called!). I layered the pink snowflakes on top and added the finished trees directly onto pearlised card bases. I scattered a few leftover silver snowflakes over the background and added a glittery sentiment sticker — another long-time lurker in my stash — below the tree.

So I now have three cards in next year’s Christmas card stash and slightly fewer card scraps on my desk.