Christmas in July

Yep you heard me...

Sorry but i just had to join in with the latest challenge over on The Artistic Stamper blog.
You can win yourself a stunning piece of original artwork for the fabby Hels.

I decided to make a decoration for this one.

I started off by stamping

with pine needle distress ink

and clear embossing

as many stitchel hearts

as i could fit onto 1 sheet

of patterned 12"x12" paper...

i took a photo as i thought

just the paper looked

pretty cool as it was lol

Next was the task

of painstakingly cutting

each of the little

blighters out....

and as you can see

this was all i had

to show for my

hours of cutting out

82 hearts !!!

But I'm glad to say... once all pieces had been arranged and stuck to a large triangle of mountboard, the finished piece was pretty cool.

I finished by just adding another piece of mountboard for the tree base which was covered in red tissue paper and tied with a ribbon bow, i also attached a wire loop to the top so the piece could be hung.

xxx Hugz xxx