19 Oct 14

Ornamental Pine Swap Card

Ornamental Pine combined with a touch of gold to make a pretty Christmas card.

Cut an 8 1/2 X 11 cherry cobbler in half lengthwise to form card base; 4 1/4 X 11

cut Soft Suede card stock 4 1/8 X 5 3/8 to make mat, attach to card front

cut gold foil paper to 3 5/8 X 4 3/8; round corners

Cut Very Vanilla to 3 5/8 X 4 1/4; round corners

stamp bough branch from Ornamental Pine stamp set in corner of very vanilla piece, WITHOUT re-inking stamp image again to either side of your first stamped image

with soft suede ink, stamp pine cone on either side of first stamped bough branch, use the gold pen to add some gold to pine cone

Cut your stamped image into 3 pieces; each 1 1/8 wide; attach to gold foil piece

cut very vanilla 5/8 X 5 3/8; cover this piece with gold striped washi tape

attach gold washi tape piece to bottom of soft suede mat (see picture of card); attach gold foil piece above washi tape.

card insert:
cut very vanilla to 4 X 5 1/4;

stamp bough image in top left hand corner
(I prefer a very light image so I can stamp sentiment over bough, to get this light of image I stamp on scrap paper 3 times then stamp on card insert)

stamp sentiment with soft suede ink