Saturday, January 12, 2013

Valentine Paper Trees

Update 1/12/2014: I am now a contributing artist at Silhouette and you will be able to  purchase the Silhouette cutting files for this project at the online store. I have posted a Silhouette tutorial for this project here. The cutting file is available here. There is also a solid heart tree cutting file here.

My valentine style leans toward simple, clean, and graphic. yesterday I shared Scandinavian hearts that influence my style. Keeping with the simple heart shape and repeating it, I designed two templates for the Silhouette cutting machine for valentine trees to be used in table or mantelscapes.

 
I love the dynamics of the positive and negative space plus the contrast of red and white. The first tree I designed was with the solid hearts.



It has a three-dimensional heart made from three red hearts suspended on a satin ribbon in the center.

David suggested making it a little more open so I made a second template with open hearts. I love the weld tool in the Silhouette software!

I decided to hanging red beads leftover from Christmas ornaments in the center of this design. And both are topped with simple red bows.


Now to find a place to display them....

Tutorial: I ran out of white cardstock. More is on order. I'll post a tutorial once I have supplies to make more and photograph them.  It really was an easy project.

Update 1/14/13: Tutorial is done and posted HERE!



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15 comments:

  1. Wow, this is really beautiful! I love it! Liz

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  2. Very Creative Marji. Thanks for sharing.

    Coming over from pret-a-vivre.com
    via Sweet Sharing Monday.

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  3. These are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Someday Crafts! I will be featuring your project this evening on the blog!

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  5. I just love your little love trees! Featuring tomorrow on my weekly wow's.

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  6. FANTASTIC!! Had to come over to PIN!!

    <3 Christina @ I Gotta Create!
    Wildly Original link party is open.

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  7. Thanks for all the nice comments. I just ordered a red table runner so I can make a centerpiece on my dining room table with these.

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  8. Just beautiful! Pinned. Anxious for tutorial, thanks, will return to see more of your talent!

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    1. Thanks for the comments. Tutorial is up here. Send pictures if you make one.

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  9. Wow these are BEAUTIFUL!!! I've never seen anything like this craft! Just beautiful!

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  10. These are just beautiful! A perfect Valentine Decoration. thank you for sharing them with us at TTF. Have a happy day!

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  11. They are beautiful. I especially like it with the red background so you can see the cut away hearts.

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  12. These little trees are ADORABLE! :) You should enter your photos from this project into Craftbaby's Hearts Craft Challenge :-) http://www.craftbaby.com/contests/43/those-tiny-toes-hearts-craft

    xo,
    Candie

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