Welcome Door Wreath – Believe

Welcome back! The Christmas countdown has started…I am going to have to get my “chore” mojo going as company is coming and that means there is just over a week to get ready.  But my Wreath is up!

Inspiration: The Card Concept (#212) with a pretty wreath and color suggestion; Colorful Options (December) with red, green and gold; Farm Quest Country Christmas (#15) for a winter outdoor theme; If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (#199) for the sentiment; sharing with Krafty Chicks (#746) for their Christmas theme; and bringing it all together, the Atlantic Hearts (#607) sketch.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Shaded Spruce cardstock.
• Accent Mat: (3⅝” x 4⅞”) Crumb Cake cardstock.
• Background Panel: (3½” x 4¾”) Pecan Pie cardstock dry-embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder to resemble the side of a house.
• Rectangle Shape: (3” x 4”) x 2 Crumb Cake cardstock die-cut with the larger Tag die from the Greetings of the Season Dies set dry-embossed with the Timber 3D Embossing Folder and overlapped to create a door.  The Rectangle Shape was flipped from the horizontal position to a vertical position to create the impression of a door.
• Focal Image – Wreath: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce and Old Olive cardstock scraps.  I chose to create a wreath from the idea of a swag.
  • Wreath Base: Using the (2¼”) Stitched Circle die from the Spotlight on Nature Dies set and the (1⅝”) Stitched Circle die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set, I created the Wreath Ring from a (2½” x 2½”) scrap of Early Espresso cardstock.
  • Berries: Using the Berry die from the retired Tree Rings Dies set, eight Berry Sprigs were die-cut from a scrap piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock.
  • Pine Fronds: Using the Pine Leaf dies from the Wintery Tree Tops Dies set, four Fronds were die-cut from a scrap of Shaded Spruce cardstock.
  • Spruce Fronds: Using the Leaf die from the Sentimental Wishes Dies set, four Fronds were die-cut from a scrap of Old Olice cardstock.
  • All of the Sprigs and Fronds were adhered to the Wreath Ring.
• Sentiment Label: Very Vanilla cardstock scrap.
  • The word, Believe, from the Christmas Labels stamp set was stamped with Versamark ink and heat-set with Gold Embossing Powder and then die-cut with the smaller Label die from the Unbounded Love Dies set.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  A pretty Bow was tied using the Gold Satin Edged Ribbon and added to the door above the Wreath and several gold-toned retired Adhesive-Backed Milky Dots from my stash were added to the Wreath for some additional bling.  The Sentiment Banner was popped up with Dimensionals.

Lovely!

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

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