Happy Holidays Series | White Christmas ft. Lawn Fawn "Large Wreath" Dies

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you're having a great day.

It's the final day of this year's Happy Holiday Series!! I cannot believe it's all done for another year. It's been such a fantastic ride, and I honestly could not have pushed through without all of your support and encouragement! The holidays are just crazy here with three kids and multiple extended families, so thank you all for your comments, shares and likes. They mean so much to me!

For a while it didn't look like we were really going to be having a white Christmas, we had summer time temperatures for most of November and the first half of December, but then last week the temperature dropped and the white stuff came falling down so we'll have a white Christmas after all.

Today's card is rather fitting, as I went with a classic white monochrome to finish off the holiday series.

To begin, I used the "Large Wreath" die set by Lawn Fawn to cut a bunch of boughs from shimmering white cardstock as well as from some white glittery cardstock. I cut the bow from silver cardstock and used Tombow Mono Multi glue to put it together and my reverse tweezers to hold it in place until it was dry.

I used the same liquid glue to adhere the bases of the boughs to the ring, filling it in with more pieces then adding the glitter boughs around until it looked just the way I wanted it to.

I adhered the bow to the bottom of the wreath then set that aside to dry.

For the background panel I used Lawn Fawn's "Wood Grain Backdrops" stamp with CTMH Linen ink to get a delicate tone on tone panel. I adhered that to the front of my standard A2 sized card base and then mounted the wreath to the front.

I had considered adding a greeting to the front of the card, but I didn't want to add any more to it. The simplistic design and the colours were just enough for me. So in a move that was completely unlike me I opted to not further embellish the card.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't already, please follow me on the right side bar or over on Facebook, so you don't miss any future posts. Drop me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

Quilled Floral Birthday

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Today, I thought I'd share something that has fallen way out of my comfort zone. Before I got into the stamping and the colouring and the embossing and the watercolour, I used to quill.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with quilling, it is the art of rolling strips of coloured paper and putting them together to create a scene. If you take a moment and hop over to YouTube there are some insanely intricate pieces that are absolutely amazing. I'm not like that. It's plain and simple for me, but it is fun watching a piece come together.

To begin, I rolled out all the pieces I needed and shaped them as necessary. I have found it best to have a sketch handy and a list of all the pieces I need so that everything is there when you need them.

I wrapped a length of satin ribbon around a piece of pink textured paper for my very back panel and adhered that to the front of an A2 sized card base. I then cut a square of off-white cardstock and rounded two of the corners.

I then stamped the greeting using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I found it best to make sure that all the stamping is done before adding any of the quills. For this piece I used 1/8" wide strips and would have been unable to do the stamping if I glued them down first.

I then adhered each piece down to the paper using Tombow Mono Multi Glue. I've found it best to add the glue to the piece and lay it down instead of adding glue to the base and putting the piece on top. No one likes it when it seeps out the side. For the stems, I simply took a length of the paper in green and adhered it on its side. No rolling for those ones.

Once all the pieces were in place I used a large acrylic block as a weight so that they would dry flat.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't already, please follow me on the right side bar or over on Facebook, so you don't miss any future posts. Drop me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.