Christmas Wreaths

My IG friend, Greta, is serving as the Elf at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge. I haven’t had much time to create this week with a household of company, but I pulled out two very neglected Christmas stamp sets, and managed to get two cards done for the “Let’s Wreath It Up” challenge. Since these are two neglected stamp sets, I’m sending them off to The Neglected Stuff Challenge.

The first card uses the Avery Elle Winter Wreath set. I’ve used the sentiments from this set on occasion, but I can’t remember the last time I used the wreath.

After stamping it in green, I added some marker and colored pencil to the base of the leaves for a bit of contrast. Rather than stamp the berries, I used some AMuse red pearls. I’m beginning to run out of these. They’ve long been a favorite. Last time I looked AMuse was taking the summer off, but these red pearls were still available. 

The sentiment from the same set was embossed in gold. I rounded the corners of the stamped panel with a corner rounder punch, and did the same for the read layer before adding it to the green card base.

A year or so ago, I used the Santa image from Papertrey Ink’s Santa’s Sleigh, but I don’t think I’ve ever inked up the reindeer wreath image. It’s so small and detailed, I stamped it on a piece of drawing paper from Art Pop. The paper has a bit of “tooth” to make it easier to used colored pencils.

After coloring the image with Polychromos pencils I die cut it with Pinkfresh Studio’s Braided Circles. Then I cut both a red and a gold circle as framing with Ellen Hutson’s Essential Circle dies. 

After adding it to a square card base (Concord & 9th’s Clover) I added a Memory Box Black Tab sentiment.

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