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Hi friends! I am back with another project featuring the fabulous new goodies from the Simon Says Stamp And Everything Nice release (click HERE to see the entire release!), putting the Frosty Tree Gathering and Frosty Tree Trio dies to use to create a little matching card and gift tag ensemble! The Frosty Tree Gathering is the big sister to the Frosty Tree Trio die set, and I love how they can be used separately or simultaneously to create beautifully graphic nature imagery. Let’s get started with the details on my projects!
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All of my projects today take advantage of that gorgeous new Seafoam cardstock, that perfect pale Tiffany blue. I love the icy feel of pairing the lovely blue with crisp white for holiday cards!
The card is relatively simple to create, with a subtly blended background highlighting the tree die cuts. I blended Seafoam Pawsitively Saturated Ink on a Seafoam cardstock card front, then splattered the blended area with some sparkling glitter watercolors. I then die cut the new Frosty Tree Gathering from shimmering white glitter cardstock, adding them to a strip of the same white cardstock and popping them up on my blended and splattered card front. For the greeting, I used Seafoam ink to stamp a sentiment from the new Stacked Holiday Sentiments, then stamped again directly over the top with embossing ink and added Hero Arts Iridescent Blue Embossing Powder. This creates an exquisite tone-on-tone shimmer without adding any additional color to the card front! I popped up all of the die cuts with foam adhesive, then added a few Opal Pawsitively Dazzling Gems for additional sparkle.
For the tags, I decided to create a simplified, smaller version of the card with the Frosty Tree Gathering die’s little sister: Frosty Tree Trio. I don’t love spending tons of time on tags, as they frequently are barely noticed and get thrown away with the rest of the wrapping, so these simple tags add the perfect handmade touch without too much time investment! I die cut these individual trees twice from white glitter cardstock to create a little forest of snowy trees on my tags. I also die cut the Rounded Tags from some more Seafoam cardstock, die cutting the tags four times so that I could adhere the scratched backsides, creating smooth and clean surface on front and back!
For the greetings on my tags, I decided to use the simple-but-perfect Tree Plate Greetings. I stamped two of the sentiments on more of the Seafoam cardstock with White Pigment Ink, then used White Satin Pearl embossing powder over the top to create a festive and shimmery sentiment without adding any additional color to my tags. I arranged the die cuts on the tag fronts, adhering with both liquid and foam adhesive and allowing my trees to “grow” from the sentiment die cuts! Finally, I added some hemp twine bows and loops for easy addition to holiday packages.
Well, that’s all for my projects today! My husband is off work this week, so I am hoping to persuade him to help me bring up the holiday decor from the basement… it’s officially Christmastime around here! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!
