Here’s another card using the items from the new Holiday catalogue. There’s a picture in there using these colours for a completely different stamp set but having made a traditionally coloured wreath, I wanted to try something different. So I copied their colour choices and produced this.

This stamp set, the Wondrous Wreath comes with matching framelits so that you can cut them out. Cutting the wreath out with scissors would definitely not be happening! The stamps are photopolymer which means that they are completely see through making placement easy. I actually didn’t use my trusty stamp-a-ma-jig!

Details:

Base: 8.5″ by 4.25″ folded in half

The wreath is a three step stamping process. You first use the wreath with all the leaves (I stamped in soft sky on very vanilla) and then the second wreath with just a few leaves (lost lagoon) and then you use the third which has only berries. These are stamped in pear pizzazz. The stamps cleverly have a tab on them so that, as long as you always point it the same way for each of the stamps (and framelits), everything will line up perfectly. I cut out my wreath using the matching framelit with the help of the Big Shot.

I then took the Joy framelit in the same set and cut out a piece of pear pizzazz. One tip that I read on Susan Itell’s site was to put wax paper between the die and the cardstock – it makes it MUCH easier to get the card and die apart.

To assemble the card, I popped the wreath up on dimensionals and then carefully glued the Joy sentiment across it. An adhesive remover was handy here until I got better at this. I found that by putting a little tombow glue on a scrap of paper and then picking up just a tiny amount on the tip of the tombow bottle, saved me from having spodges of glue on my card.