Happy Thanksgiving!

 Hello and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here in the US celebrating!  I'm popping in with my second Birch Press Design post for the month.  Can't believe that we are less than a month away from Christmas.  Thanksgiving coming so late this year really speeds things up doesn't it?   Since Christmas is so close I thought I would share a Christmas card today.  Let's have a look.

I started my card by picking out two shades of red to use with the new Rosebud Arch Contour Layers die set.  Even though this die is a more spring-like die I thought it would be lovely used for a Christmas card.  I did also use two shades of green for the stems.  I die cut everything and adhered all the pieces together.  I did add a bit of sparkle to the buds with some Rock Candy glitter.  I love that stuff!   The Merry Christmas was die cut from the darker of the two reds three times, layered together and then adhered to the shadow layer that was die cut from white cardstock.   

I wanted something a little more for the background so I decided to pull out my Herbarium Layering die set.  At first I was going to use layer A to emboss the background, but then decided that I would do a little hot foiling with it.  I used silver matte foil and I love the pretty background it provides to the card.  Fun fact:  I have NEVER actually used all of the Herbarium layers together on a card!  I have only used the top layer for embossing and now hot foiling!  Need to use all the layers together soon.

With all the pieces completed it was time to put everything together.  The Rosebud Arch creates the perfect spot for a sentiment, even one as large as the Merry Christmas.   Well, that is it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!  Going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Guesting at Color Hues!

 Hello, hello!  I have the distinct pleasure of being the guest designer over at Color Hues today and if you are looking for a color combo to help create some "Christmas in July" cards then Color Hues is the place to be!  The combo for the next two-ish weeks is red and green!   Take a look at what I created with those colors.

As you can see from my card I went with dark shades of the red and green.  My most favorite red in the crafting world is Stampin Up's Cherry Cobbler.  It is the most gorgeous dark red and it pairs perfectly with PaperTrey Ink's Pinefeather, a gorgeous dark hunter green.  I used two dies from Poppystamps:  Holiday Joy and Nordic Bird.  I die cut all the pieces for each from the Cherry Cobbler and Pinefeather cardstocks and then layered them as you see.   I did cut several of the word joy from the Cherry Cobbler and layered them together before adhering to the shadow layer cut from Pinefeather.   I decided to go with a cream background panel that I embossed with a Spellbinder holly embossing folder.  I adhered the joy using liquid adhesive and the added the bird using a combo of liquid adhesive and thin foam squares.  I finished with a foiled sentiment that I had in my stash.

I hope you will take the time to play along with the Color Hues challenge.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!