CHRISTMAS BOUGHS

This week I am featuring cards made with the Nests of Winter Suite.  If you are a bird lover (or watcher), you will love this suite. It is not specifically a Christmas Set, but it can certainly be used for Christmas.  So today, I have used it to create a Christmas Card.

The Winterly Tree Tops Bundle, which is part of the Suite, has this beautiful bough swag.  I used two of them to create a wreath.

The quick and easy part of this card was stamping two boughs on Basic White Cardstock with Black Memento ink and then quickly coloring them by using a Blending Brush and Granny Apple Green ink.  The Winterly Tree Tops bundle includes coordinating dies, so that made a quick job of cutting the boughs.

This suite also includes the gorgeous Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper (DSP).  One of the things I love is that the DSP includes birds that have coordinating dies, so cutting them is quick and easy.  This robin that found a home on my wreath was die cut from the DSP.

And check out those berries on the wreath.  They were made with little dots of Red Enamel Effects. The close-up also shows a couple of the more neutral DSP patterns from the collection.  I love the Birch DSP pattern, and the suite also includes an overside Birch Wood 3D embossing folder so when I run out of the DSP, I can make more!  There is just so much to love about this suite -- including three colors of Linen Thread!

The inside of the card was kept very clean and simple with just an Old Olive Mat on the Cherry Cobbler Card base.

The sentiments for today's card both came from retired stamp sets from my stash.  As I indicated, this set is not technically a Christmas set so it does not include Christmas Greetings.  But if you want to use it for Christmas just use sentiments that you love that are already in your stamp collection.

Use this link to download a FREE Tutorial for all the cutting dimensions and step-by-step assembly directions.

Click on any image in the product list below for more details or to purchase items from this Suite.

Product List

Nests Of Winter Suite Collection (English) [164072]	Regal Reindeer Cling Stamp Set (English) [159722]	Very Best Occasions Cling Stamp Set (English) [159871]	Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119685]
Old Olive 12" X 12" Card Stock [124284]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Nests Of Winter 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [164183]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]
Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [147083]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Natural Tones Linen Thread [164071]	Basics Embossing Powders [155554]
Pearlized Enamel Effects Basics [156310]	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]

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