Peaceful Boughs – Season’s Greetings

Tuesday Design Time.  Combining the Hand Stamped Sentiments (#426) Inspiration challenge with the Case-ing Tuesday (#432) sketch.

I was inspired by the Pinecones in the Wooden Crates.  I do not have the new Precious Pinecones stamp set, so I opted to use a favorite retired bundle, the Peaceful Boughs stamp set and the coordinating Beautiful Boughs Dies set which debuted in 2019.

Other design choices were inspired by Can You Handle The Pressure (#42), Tic Tac Toe (#232) and Retro Rubber (#218). 

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Crumb Cake cardstock.
• Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Garden Green cardstock.
  • Using the Big Shot Machine and the companion Big Shot Embossing Mats, the three Bough dies from the Beautiful Boughs Dies set, were dry-embossed onto the panel.
• Accent Panels: (3” x 4”) Woodgrain and Scattered Pinecone pieces of patterned paper from the retired Poinsettia Place Designer Series Paper pack were cut.
• Focal Panel: (1⅞” x 3”) Basic White cardstock dry-embossed with the Timber 3D Embossing Folder and highlighted with Crumb Cake ink using a Sponge Dauber.
• Decoration – Pinecones and Bough Branches: Garden Green, Early Espresso and retired Soft Suede cardstock scraps die-cut with dies from the Beautiful Boughs Dies set.
• Sentiment: Soft Suede cardstock scrap.
  • The sentiment, Season’s Greetings, from the Peaceful Boughs stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with White Embossing Powder.
  • The Greeting was die-cut with the (2⅜” x 1”) Rectangle die from the Deckled Rectangles Dies set.

All elements were adhered to resemble the sketch.  The larger Pinecone was popped up with Dimensionals.  Several Rustic Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots were added to complete the card.

Happy Holidays!

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda!

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