Christmas Swag

Christmas

Have you been enjoying the fabulous projects so far on the Holiday Blog Blitz? I'm adding my project to this holiday extravaganza with a card featuring two of the new release dies.  Pine Boughs and Fancy Merry Christmas.

When I saw the Pine Boughs Dies I immediately thought of making a Christmas swag on my card front, kind of like the one I hang on my front door.

I die cut a bunch of pine boughs in two different shades of green and used a sponge dauber to apply Versamark  ink to parts of the needles.  I then added gold embossing powder and zapped it with the heat gun.

I layered the embossed boughs with plain ones and added a red bow with long tails.  Keeping with the traditional green and red theme, I added a red sentiment and layered this onto a red card base. Oh, and I forgot to mention that I splattered my white card stock with gold paint.

Would you like a chance to win the Pine Boughs dies?  Just leave me a comment and you'll be entered into the draw. 

Make sure to stop by every day for some more holiday inspiration and a chance to win another prize!

 

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108 Comments

  4. Lovely design. I really like the touches of gold embossing on the pine boughs. The fancy merry Christmas die is gorgeous too.

  6. Sue, I love this card! The script of Merry Christmas is pretty but not overly fancy, and I think the gold tips on some of the pine boughs is fantastic!

  10. Absolutely love your card and it was so creative to add the gold tips to the boughs!! As a child we always had a Christmas swag on our entry door so this brings back many wonderful memories.

  15. Love your pine bough- could also see itwith a snowy look ! Thanks for a chance to win this great die!

  16. This card is gorgeous! I love the gold ink splatters and the gold tipped pine boughs. I’d like to try something similar with white (snow) tipped boughs.

  29. I have an addiction to leaves and pine boughs. I love this card and how the boughs are tipped. Good luck to me.

  31. Love the gold accents on those pine boughs and what a great font for those word dies!

  32. I’m loving this
    pine bough and all
    the wonderful ways
    you are using it!
    Carla from Utah

  33. Love this card. great idea to add the gold to the pine boughs. guess i need to put these on my wish list!

  44. Beautiful card that will really stand out from the crowd. Deceptively simple for so much work.

  45. I love what you did with the pine boughs. Won’t be long before I’ll be gathering the real thing to create the swag for my front door! Love the gold accents!

  50. Sue, I like how you gold embossed the ends of the branches; I will have to try that technique as it adds a ton of dimension to it. Thank you for sharing; I have been following your Inky Fingers blog for a long time now too.

  59. Love what you did with the pine boughs. I just bought them and can’t wait to try your unique technique. Looks awesome!

  62. What a beautiful card. Simple but yet very impressive. I never would have guessed you could make a card with just the pine boughs and ribbon. Well done!
    Lynn from San Jose, CA

  76. I would love to get a Christmas card like this. It is so pretty. Great idea to put gold embossing powder on the tips. So festive.

  79. What a fresh, outdoorsy feel! Your pine boughs remind me of taking a walk in the woods – just right for these snowy days. Thanks.

  87. I looooove the ‘merry christmas’ font and I looooove the touches of gold! The splatter of gold paint and the ribbon are perfect touches!

  94. LOVE this fabuliscious card!! Those pine boughs are gorgeous with the touch of gold embossing!!! I got happy shivers looking at this card!! TFS!

  95. GORGEOUS card – LOVE the gold-tipped Pine Broughs, LOVE the FANCY font of Merry Christmas – a really ELEGANT DESIGN!!!
    I have to confess that I’m pretty new to the world of die cutting, thoroughly enjoying the wonders of dies, EXCITED at how much FUN they can be and really looking forward to my Christmas card creating this year => THANK YOU for the CREATIVE INSPIRATION and the chance to win some CRAFTY AWESOMENESS 🙂

  96. love this pine dies! They seem very usefull for christmascards.
    I think they’d be lovely with inca gold also!
    Another item for my wishlist, so also the merry christmasdie you used!

  101. Love the new use of the pine bough die. I also like the touch of gold. Makes me think that white would look good too.

  105. I love this card, and the pine bough dies are just brill, so versatile, another one for my wish list … unless of course I am a lucky winner. thank you for sharing

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