It’s time for Christmas in July with the recently released “Jolly Holly” Bundle! You can find this great bundle in the On-Line Exclusives. Part of this bundle includes the “Jolly Holly Embossing Folder” along with some additional coordinating dies. This is a “hybrid embossing folder” which partially die cuts out around the holly leaves. What a super cool feature!
My color palette for this card was Soft Sea Foam, Garden Green, Real Red and White. It was challenging to keep this card fairly simple as it did involve a few different steps.
Here are the details…
First, I embossed/die cut with the hybrid embossing folder. Next, I drew vertical pencil lines on my panel, but NOT on the embossed leaves portion. This served as my guide to trim away the extra card stock and allow the holly leaves to overlap onto my Garden Green folded card base. Once I trimmed away the excess, I lifted the leaves (one or two at a time) and tucked a scrap of paper under them. This allowed me to add the Garden Green color with a “Blending Brush” to only the embossed leaves. Regardless, it was challenging to not get the Garden Green ink on the other areas of my die cut panel.
I used Real Red “Blends” to color the berries. This is a bit tricky because the ink absorbs into the card stock and spreads rather quickly. For this step, I chose to dab on dots of color little by little. However, if you look closely, you can tell the “Blends” do have a tendency to bleed a bit. Next time, I’ll be a bit more light handed with the color, LOL!
Once the red berries had dried a bit, I added “Wink of Stella” so that they would have a subtle shimmer to them. I’m not a great photographer and this detail is always hard to capture in a photo. Lastly, I added a “Red/White Baker’s Twine” Bow to my card with a “Mini Glue Dot”. Honestly, this card is quite pretty IRL!
