Winter Greenery

Hi everyone, in my ongoing quest to make a few last minute simple Christmas cards I wanted to use up some snippets, so I decided to stamp some small stitched squares of winter greenery, then mount them onto an embossed panel made from a larger snippet!

Here’s a picture of my snippets…

…and one of the cards I made.

I die cut a stitched rectangle of white card, then dry embossed it with an extremely old Cuttlebug embossing folder called ‘Holly Ribbons’. I die cut 3 small stitched squares, and stamped them with Lavinia Holly, Mistletoe and Star Pine in various shades of green VFC. I coloured the holly berries with red Signo pen topped with Sakura Stardust pen, the mistletoe berries with clear Stardust pen, and the Starpine with Wink of Stella. I edged both the stamped and embossed panels with blended Olive Elements ink, then  added white Posca accents and faux snow spatter. I die cut a small stitched rectangle and stamped the sentiment, then assembled the card onto a dark green border and 7” x 5” card blank.

Stamps: Lavinia Holly, Mistletoe, Star Pine, Christmas Greetings;

Media: Lavinia Elements ink (Olive); Versafine Clair (Shady Lane, Grass Green, Rainforest, Nocturne); Signo Pen (Red); Sakura Stardust pens (red, clear); Wink of Stella (clear); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Hunky Dory Moonstone Duo- Stitched Square and Rectangle dies; Cuttlebug Holly Ribbons embossing folder.

Challenges I would like to enter:

As You Like It - Festive Creations (3rd entry)

Can You Handle the Pressure? - Anything Goes with option Celebrate Any Holiday

Cut It Up #345 - Oldie But a Goodie + Use a Die Cut 

(My embossing folder is very old)

Krafty Chicks #799 - CAS

Little Red Wagon #838 - Christmas Card

Make My Monday #267 - A CAS Quickie Christmas Card (2nd entry)

The Male Room #205 - Christmas Colours (Red and Green)

Shopping Our Stash #563 - My Sweet Embossable You  (2nd entry)

Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Christmas (2nd entry)

Snippets Playground #521 - Use Snippets

Once I got going I actually made three cards - another very similar to the one above, plus a third using old designer paper instead of an embossing folder.

… and an angled picture to (not very successfully!) show the sparkle.

All supplies as above except for Lili if the Valley designer paper.

Challenges I would like to enter:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Pick a Previous Colour Challenge

(I picked May 2025 - Red & Green)

Colourful Options (December) - Colour Mood Board (4th entry)

C.R.A.F.T. #770 - Christmas (2nd entry)

Die Cut Divas (December) - Christmas/Winter with a Die Cut (3rd entry)

Girlz Rebel #47 - Anything Goes

Love Those Pretty Papers (December) - Use Designer Paper

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2550 - Anything Goes

Simon Says (Monday) - Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #730/733 - Anything Goes

That’s all for today. Take care, and thanks for visiting,

Hugs,