Festive Foliage

Good evening

Back with another of this year's makes and this time it's one with a nice classic and traditional feel.

I'll get straight to it...

For a change I chose to make a square card here and cut a square panel which was slightly smaller than the base.  I masked off the sides of the panel and began by lightly blending a background with Iced Spruce Distress Ink.  I used a lighter hand towards the centre, the blend didn't have to be perfect as I was going to stencil over the top.  I added the foliage stencil over the top and blended with red, brown and two shades of green ink.  I then cut a wide strip of vellum and stamped and heat embossed a bold sentiment in gold before wrapping this around the panel and securing on the reverse.  To finish I matted the panel onto a larger red panel and then adhered flat to the card base.

Materials used:

• Stencil: Tim Holtz - Festive
• Ink: Distress Ink - Iced Spruce, Pine Needles, Candied Apple, Gathered Twigs; VersaMark
• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Merry Calligraphy
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich
• Vellum and cardstock from stash

Challenge entries:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Challenge #522 - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Challenge #238 - Christmas

Just Add Ink - Challenge #536 - Inspiration Pic

STAMPlorations - December Stencil Challenge - Anything Goes

STAMPlorations - December Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge - I chose the photo

Still a couple more to share with you so I'll be back again soon.