TWO Cottage Wreaths Holiday Cards for the MMM Challenge

Hi, Stampers!

A new Make My Monday challenge starts today with the theme “Wreaths” and I am the host! Am I the only one who thinks of wreaths during the holiday season? When I chose this theme, I didn’t have anything current in my collection, so I purchased the Cottage Wreaths when we had a stamp sale a few months ago. The stamps are wonderful and you can also purchase the coordinating dies, which makes it even better! These two cards were so easy to make and would be suitable for any time of year. So, I did one for Thanksgiving and the other for Christmas.

Once you finish here, I hope you visit the Make My Monday Design Team gallery for some great inspiration and play along!

My Secrets!

Card #1

Let’s start with the card base…

• Firstly, the Christmas card was made with a white card base, cut to 7-1/4 x 5-1/2 and scored at 3 to make a fast and very easy fun fold card.
• After that, I cut the Joy of Christmas designer paper with the largest die from Ornate Layers and glued it to the card base.

And now, the fun part!

• Once that was done, I took a piece of white cardstock and stamped the wreath with leaves using Old Olive ink.
• After that, I took the stamp that looks like fir branches and stamped those with the Old Olive ink all around the outer portion of the wreath to give it more fullness.
• Then, I used the wreath die and cut Old Olive cardstock and glued it over the wreath.
• Since the white background was a little stark, I splattered Gold Wink of Stella and cropped it out with the Scalloped Contours die.
• Before gluing it to the card base, I wrapped gold twine into a bow around the lower part of the panel.
• Finally, I cut the red bow from more designer paper and added gold Blooming Pearls to the wreath and the bow. After that, I colored one Polished Dot with the Dard Real Red Stampin’ Blends marker.

Then, the second card…

• So, for the second card, I created the card base by cutting Copper Clay cardstock to the A2 size – 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 and scored at 4-1/4.
• After that, I cut the All About Autumn designer paper with the Radiating Stitches die and layered it onto white cardstock.
• Then, I began stamping the wreath with Copper Clay ink in the same method as I did the first one. When it came time to cut out the wreath, this time I used more All About Autumn paper to give it lots of variable color.
• After that, I splattered Copper Clay onto the panel, cut it out with the Stitched Rectangle die, and adhered it to the card base.
• Then, I stamped “Grateful” from the Cottage Wreaths stamp set into the right bottom corner with Copper Clay ink.
• Once that was done, I stamped the bow in Copper Clay ink, added the Speckled Dots and a Linen Thread bow to glue down under the first bow.

I’m sharing my card with these challenges:

1. Allsorts
2. 613 Avenue Create
3. A Place To Start
4. Crafty Catz
5. Happy Little Stampers Christmas
6. NBUS (new Stamp Set and Dies)
7. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies Challenges
8. The Paper Funday
9. A Perfect Time to Craft

Before You Go!

I love hearing from you! Please leave a comment if you have any questions or comments about my project today.

If you enjoyed my project today, please be sure to…

• Firstly, visit my Gallery and Fun Fold Gallery for lots of ideas, and…
• Enter the Creative Creases Challenge HERE with any fun fold card!
• Also, follow me on Pinterest
• Finally, you find out what’s new with SU HERE

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This kit includes:

• 9 cards; 3 each of 3 designs (4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″)
• 9 coordinating envelopes
• 1 Acetate box to fit cards and envelopes from the kit
• 1 Pebbled Path Stampin’ Spot
• 1 photopolymer stamp set
• Embellishments
• Specialty gold foil die cuts
• Adhesive to finish the project.
• Coordinating colors: Balmy Blue, Crushed Curry, gold foil, Old Olive, Pebbled Path

Cottage Wreaths Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [159652] $19.00	Cottage Wreaths Bundle (English) [159659] $52.00	Joy Of Christmas 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [161958] $12.50	All About Autumn 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [162178] $15.00	Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100702] $10.00
Copper Clay 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161721] $10.00	Copper Clay Classic Stampin' Pad [161647] $9.00	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090] $9.00	Real Red Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154899] $10.00	Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820] $35.00
Country Wreaths Dies [160238] $39.00	Scalloped Contours Dies [155560] $35.00	Ornate Layers Dies [152726] $37.00	Radiating Stitches Dies [161595] $30.00	Adhesive Backed Speckled Dots [162191] $8.00
Polished Dots [158134] $7.50	Blooming Pearls [162238] $8.00	Forever Greenery Trim Combo Pack [152475] $9.00	Linen Thread [104199] $5.00

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