This month sees several more PaperTrey Ink holiday releases, among them being an often requested religious Christmas set. I was really excited to see all of the possibilities that the many verses afforded in the new Silent Night set! For one of our release projects, Nichole challenged us to create a fairly simple, affordable, mass-producible card with the set of our choice.
I chose Silent Night, along with PaperTray's new Metallic Gold cardstock; I love how well gold embossing shows up on this cardstock! I embossed and die cut a star and sentiment, using the Spellbinders Plain Rectangle and Double-Ended Tags dies, then edged them in gold with a paint pen--more about that later. I added a Swarovski crystal to the center of the star, but a gold brad would be effective too.
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For the background, I stamped the swirl from Silent Night and embossed it in gold, then edged it with a gold paint pen. Several people have asked how to edge with a paint pen and keep a consistent line. If you'll look at the first picture, I try to keep the tip of my pen half on and half off of the sheet of cardstock that I'm edging, and I press firmly as I pull the pen to keep it in that little groove.
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In the second picture, you'll see where I moved the gold cardstock over--notice that the gold mark is on my paper edge as well as on the scrap sheet of paper. Sometimes I mess up anyway--usually when I don't have time to! But this is the best way to edge that I have found so far.
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The Silent Night set contains some sentiments suitable for the inside of your card too; here's a sample of one.
If you haven't seen Nichole's blog yet, she has a great post with card sets from the entire PTI team--including instruction sheets and shopping lists. It doesn't get much easier than that! Enjoy.
Edited to add: Rebecca Ednie e-mailed me about her method for getting a clean metallic line, and it sounds like a good idea. I thought I'd share it in case any of you want to try Rebecca's way too.
"There is another fantastic way to gold edge! It is also very easy and gives a wider edge for when you need lots of bling power. You need a chisel ended marker, I get mine at staples. With a scrap piece of thin chipboard or heavy cardstock, gouge into the felt tip creating a permanent groove. The deeper the groove, the wider the edge you create. Now when edging the cardstock, the groove rides along cardstock edge making the edge consistent and easy to do. Two tips: the cardstock needs to be held in the air so it is stiff not floppy, if you flex it that helps. So much easier to see IRL! Other tip is to keep the marker at a 45 degree angle on the good side of the paper, though you can go back an do the undeside also if desired. The underside will have a very fiine gold edge on it otherwise. HTH!"
Thanks, Rebecca!
