Since the crunch is on to finish our Christmas cards, I made a Christmas card for this month's challenge. I had this new stamp and die pine cone set that I wanted to use. The pine cone is a layered stamp - I must warn you there are 5 to 6 layers on this pine cone. I had a hard time finding that many brown inks to use especially since I was not at home. Luckily I had brought all my distress oxide inks with me and was able to dig through them and find enough plus I had a dark brown ink and a Versafine Black Onyx ink. With the help of my Misti I stamped over 10 pine cones.
I added color to the background of my card by smooshing it in some Peacock Feathers oxide ink. I die cut out many pine boughs out of Bristol smooth paper and then colored them with different green colored oxides. I love the variation of color that I got in the boughs. The sentiment from Tim Holtz was stamped and embossed in gold. The card front was layered on a gold card base I found in my supplies. It has a coordinating envelope.
Here is a picture of the stamp and die sets I used.
I first layered the pine boughs onto the card front filling up two sides. I added a tangle of red thread (I did use regular sewing thread because I didn't have anything heavier in red). I centered one pine cone and glued it to the card base. I then pop dotted the other two pine cones over the top. I cut up a pine bough and glued to the top of the pine cones to fill in that corner of the card. After everything was assembled, I sprayed the entire card with a Tattered Angels sheer gold mist. It adds such beautiful sparkle to your card.
Here is a close up of the pine cones.
Please come play with us at Happy Little Stampers and use some of those beautiful dies you have.
Did I tell you there were prizes??
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