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I found some wonderful Christmas vellum on sale but need ideas on how to use it.
It is misc Christmas words and phrases in white on white vellum. I want to stamp something under it maybe, but nothing seems to look right.
Does anyone have any ideas? I have tried a basic tree stamp, but couldn't get any colors to work well with the white/white.
I'd appreciate any help!
I finished my mom's cards back in February (when I bought the vellum) but I'm stuck for ideas for my own.
Can you give a little bit more detail on the vellum. I am such a picture person that I am haveing a hard time "seeing" what it looks like. May a picture of it?
White vellum with rows and rows of white words. Varying sizes of lettering if I remember correctly, but all in rows. Words are like, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Twas the night before Christmas, jingle all the way, etc. Various Christmas greetings and words from carols.
I can't post a picture now, but maybe tonight.
Thanks.
Are you planning on cutting up the vellum so that each phrase is on one piece. Or is it a hodge podge mixture and you want to use basically a card front overlay?
This sound like a scrapbook opportunity to me. I would layer it over a dark card stock, add christmas photos matted on like card stock, embellish, and add a title.
I never thought about cutting out the words because there wouldn't be enough space around them.
I might just have to reverse my original plan and instead of using the vellum as a see through cover, use it more as background paper.....
Here is a card I made awhile back using printed vellum. I love the way it turned out. Just think of using the printed vellum as another layer, but let more of it show than you would maybe let show of a solid color (if that makes sense!).
What about using a dark cardstock and stamping your image on white (then matted in a complimentary pattern), then just use a strip of vellum across the bottom, securing it with eyelets. Just an idea, HTH!
Sairabee! I loved that card - obviously not a Christmas card, but that might just work.
I will try a few new ideas this weekend and hopefully post pictures. Posting pics will be new to me - but I'm gonna give it a try.
Thanks for all the help!
Oooo! I love that! Here's what I'd do (though I'm not an expert by any means!)...
Use a base of white, then layer with red, then the printed vellum. Run a ribbon around the red/vellum layer and tie in the front off to one side. Then find a Christmas image of Santa or a reindeer, or some other image that ties into one of the words on the vellum and stamp it on white, layer it on red and adhere over part of the ribbon. Add a little glitter to the image, and voila! Make sense? lol. Probably not!
Here's a link to one of my cards that uses a similar layout. I'd use a smaller image than those dino's though so you can see more of the vellum.
Looking for ways to use printed vellum - help!
