I've settled into making some Christmas cards mostly using up pieces of backing paper which I've had for some years and of course delving into my boxes of snippets. I was rather caught by surprise when I die cut this large holly sprig because when I bought it I'd not realised that it cut the leaves out with separate outline, veins and the inner parts of the leaves. However I found another shade of green to cut out another one so that I could mix and match and helpfully the berries are separate as well. I had thought the whole thing would cut with maybe embossed details for the veining - that will teach me to look more closely in the shop!! The 'joy' die was much more straightforward to use. A piece of paper with music and holly sprigs was used as a background and I've kept the whole thing fairly flat for posting.
Background - paper from Craftwork Cards a while ago
Dies - from The Works
The large holly sprig with berries is so pretty against that musical background, and I love the colors! NJ!
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ReplyDeleteA great Christmas card. Love the holly die!
I have so many old paper pads with just odd bits of Christmas paper in .. .. I am determined to use them and clear some space! You get fed up of seeing them eventually don't you! LOL!!
Hope all is well with you.
Love Jules xx
I just love that swirly joy sentiment. The holly looks great too. Hugs Mrs A.
ReplyDeleteLove this card Val - and my guess is that you won't be surprised when the Joy die pops up as a snippets draw prize in a day or two! Great minds think alike as I'd missed this gorgeous card and only just found it when I was Googling for images and ideas using said die!
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Di xx