Heart of Christmas - Week 15
The Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue is now live, and I have been super busy making samples for my up coming classes.
Today's cards use the thinlit set Christmas Staircase, which has a co-ordinating stamp set called Ready for Christmas. If you purchase these two items together as a bundle, you save 10%!
Both cards started out the same way, with the tree image stamped in the first case in Pear Pizazz on Very Vanilla and then in Garden green on Whisper White. I added 6 of the larger foliage sprigs to each stamped image, in the coordinating colour to give the trees a realistic texture. The set come with two of these identical dies for faster cutting, very very handy idea!
For the Pear Pizazz tree I stamped the triple ornament image three times and then embossed in Gold Emboss powder to give me 9 ornaments. I only ended up using 7 ornaments. The Merry Christmas greeting is from the Star of Light Stamp set and was also embossed in Gold Emboss Powder. A star die cut from Gold Foil finished this tree. It was then mounted on Pear Pizazz followed by Crumb Cake cardstock.
For the Garden Green tree I die cut 8 ornaments from Gold Foil paper. The red decoration is Red Mini Tinsel Trim, from the Silver and Red combo pack. I cut short pieces of this trim and used the Tombo Glue to attach it to the tree. A star from Gold Glimmer paper finishes this tree. The greeting was stamped in Real Red and then had a small amount of Gold Tread looped behind it to continue the gold theme. This was then mounted on Real Red and Garden Green cardstock.
I hope you enjoyed seeing my tree creations today. For more Christmas inspiration head to Tina's blog, as she is hosting today while Claire is away.
Happy Stampin,
Rachel
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Both cards are gorgeous Rachel, the trees are gorgeous and all that beautiful gold embossing really finishes them off perfectly. xx
ReplyDeleteOh I love them Rachel and how you did the ornaments too! Fantastic trees!
ReplyDeleteI love your cards Rachel, your Pear Pizzazz and Crumb Cake is my favourite of the two. Using the Gold Glimmer star is a perfect contrast to the solid Gold Foil on your Garden Green one. :)
ReplyDeleteBoth of your cards are delightful and it's great to see how the one design can be simply adapted to achieve a variety of looks.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! The red tinsel trim looks amazing on the tree. You have more patience than me to cut all of those sprigs - even with the doubled up dies!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, Rachel but my favourite is the tinsel and the gold foil baubles. I think you must have the patience of a Saint to cut and glue each of those sprigs!
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