Rosette Tree

Here is the rosette tree I made this afternoon. I can't take credit for the idea, I saw the idea over at Creations with Christina. She had a patterned she followed. After looking at her tree I decided I wanted to make one and use my Ribbon and Rosettes Cricut Cartridge.

I have seven layers on my tree. I of course used the tree rosette. I started cutting my rosettes at 3". I cut 5 sections for each of my rosettes. Each layer is 1/4" smaller then the layer below it. After putting all my rosettes together I cut seven 1" circles and hot glued them to the centers of each of my rosettes. Then I hot glued each layer together. All the paper is from a Recollections paper pad I picked up last Christmas.

My topper is a snowflake from the Teresa Collins December 25th Cricut Cartridge. I cut 4 snowflakes at 1 1 3/4". Scored them in the middle (that was a challenge) and then glued the folded pieces together to make a 3D snowflake and hot glued it to the top of my tree. Finally sprayed the whole tree with some Pearls Glimmer Mist and let it dry.

I think this will be going in my office at work. I am pleased with it.

An Experiment

I just recently bought the Cricut Cartridge Lyrical Letters. I was amazed at all the extra stuff there is on the cartridge besides the 6 font styles. One of the designs I wanted to cut out was a lacy Christmas tree that is on the cartridge. I cut it out just using some scrap paper I had in peach. Once I cut it out I got out my craft mat and spread a bunch of the Ranger's distress ink in Pine Needle on my mat and lightly misted it. I then ran the tree through the ink to color it green. When I do this again, I will just sponge the ink onto the tree. With all the little twists and turns I had a difficult time getting it covered completely in ink. I decided I wanted to emboss the tree so once it was wet with ink I covered in embossing powder. All I had was a transparent powder Kaleidoscope in color, which gave it an iridescent look. I cut this one out at 5" and it is too big for a quarter-fold card front. I think if I cut it at 4" it should fit the front of a card. I have other ideas floating around in my head about this little tree and what I could do with it but wanted to share what I came up with. The picture above shows the tree before and after the inking and embossing and does do the embossing justice. Thanks for looking.