But softly gives itself away

We had a long weekend here so I used the extra day off to catch up on my Christmas card from last week and decided to do one featuring a die cut from Cottage Cutz, Lantern with Holly Vine.

 My card follows the layout from CAS(E) thisSketch.  My lantern is the rectangular element and instead of doing some kind of background I split my white base with the holly vine.  To make the rectangular element more prominent I added in a sentiment from the Scribbly Christmas set from Tim Holtz.

Over at Christmas Card Throwdown they are looking for you to raid your stash of embellies for gems, pearls or sequins.  I went with pearls and used them for the berries instead of the teeny tiny cut outs from the die.

I’m also entering my card at ABC Christmas in the M for More than one theme.  I’ve cut my die cut more than once to get the layers and to have enough holly vine, I’ve also got more than one layer to my card (matted in green and red to match the holly and berry) and more than one pearl.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Cottage Cutz Die ~ CC-170 Lantern with Holly Vine

Embellishments

Flourish with a Bling Pearls ~ Red

Inks & Paints etc

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers ~ Carmine Red & Yellow

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

La-La Land Adhesive Foil ~ Copper

House of Paper Romanesque Paper ~ Pearl

Mondi Color Copy Paper ~ 200gsm White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Emerald Envy & Real Red

Challenges

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS249 Scribbly Christmas

Challenges

ABC Christmas ~ M for More than one

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #225

Christmas Card Throwdown #12 ~ Stash (Gems, Pearls, Sequins)

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