Today’s card is also a mixed CASE of a few ideas I have seen. The great thing about this card is this…it is elegant and impressive without being complicated! You could easily make a lot of these to send at Christmas.
This time I have the pinned samples of the CASE cards, so I know where I got the inspiration. I loved Dawn Olchefske’s layered look that you can see here. As she says, it is a variation of Triple Time Stamping, but with only two layers…so maybe we can call it Double Time? I also loved Lisa Young’s card that you can see here. My card is a mix of these two layouts.
You need two pieces of Very Vanilla to create this card front. The sizes are 4″ x 5 1/4″ and 2 1/4″ x 3 1/2″. These pieces need to be stamped with the pine bough at the same time. To do this, layer the small piece on the large piece and attach them with temporary adhesive.
I use the grid paper as a guide – the small piece is about 3/8″ from each edge of the large piece. Once these are in place, stamp the image and greetings. I used the Mossy Meadow stamp pad to ink most of the pine bough, and then I added ink to the branch with my Early Espresso marker.
There will be a little gap in the image around the small piece – that is ok, the Mossy Meadow mat will cover it up.
That’s it! Assemble the large piece onto the card front. Add the small piece to a 2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ Mossy Meadow mat and attach to the card. I added a bow made with Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding and a pine cone stamped with Soft Suede on Crumb Cake. I also added a touch of gold glitter to the pine cone.
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