Hello, Honey Bee friends!! Today I'm sharing my elegant holiday card that features the Lovely Layers: Bow & Bough and the Snowflake Symphony stencil! Check out all of the details below.
To begin, I sprayed the back of the Snowflake Symphony stencil with Pixie Spray. This is a beautiful, but delicate stencil and the temporary adhesive will lightly adhere all of the stencil to the cardstock. After placing the stencil over a 4-¼" x 5-½" piece of red cardstock, I used Detail Blending brushes to blend two shades of darker red inks through the stencil.
I went over the edges a second time with the darkest red ink for more depth. I carefully removed the stencil and used Bee Creative glue to adhere the piece to an A2 card base.
Next I used the dies in the Lovely Layers: Bow and Bough set to die cut the Bough pieces from two shades of green card stocks. I die cut the Bow layers from gold glitter and mat gold cardstocks. Then I used glue to assemble the layers of the bow and added a few foam squares to the back to adhere it to the card.
I used glue to adhere the die cut Bough pieces around the bow as shown in the photo.
The sentiment is from the Simply Stated: Holiday stamp set. As you may know, this is a single stamp that stamps all of the sentiments together. I didn't really think that I will need that many sentiments embossed in gold on red cardstock, but it is really easy to get just one sentiment too!
I placed a small piece of red cardstock into my MISTI. I positioned the sentiment I wanted from Simply Stated: Holiday stamp over the red cardstock. Then I added some anti-static powder to the cardstock, inked up just the one sentiment with clear embossing ink and stamped it. Then I added gold embossing powder to the stamped sentiment and used my heat tool to set it.
Next I used the Simply Stated die to cut out my sentiment. It was very easy to do! I added a few foam squares to the back of the sentiment to adhere it to my card.
I added a bit of bling to the card with a few pearls from the Merry Moments Pearl Stickers set.
I do love stencils and this Snowflake Symphony stencil is definitely one of my favorites! I hope you've enjoyed this elegant, but also easy, card and have found some inspiration here. Thanks so much for stopping by!