Festive Blooms

Hello there, today I have a card to share using the Concord & 9th Festive Blooms die. I was so eager to get my hands on this die back when it was released, even stalking the Seven Hills Crafts website daily, but then once I got it, it just sat in my Rashult for months not being used! Is buying craft supplies and actually using them two completely different things? Haha! Thankfully, last weekend, I finally got a chance to play!

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I started off by die cutting all of the flowers and foliage from the Concord & 9th Festive Blooms Die Set from various shades of Concord & 9th Cardstock, as well as the lighter shade on the poinsettias being Spellbinders Dahlia Cardstock and the flower centres being Spellbinders Chamomile Cardstock (sadly now discontinued). 

I assembled the flowers using Bearly Art Glue and set them aside while I worked on the card base. I folded a panel of Hero Arts Pine Cardstock in half and then placed the large base layer die on top, overlapping the die slightly with the folded edge of the card base to keep it intact. It was then run through my die cutting machine. 

To hide the folded edge, I die cut another of the base layer die from the same Pine Cardstock and adhered it on top. I then adhered the foliage first, followed by the berries and then the flowers. I adhered almost everything with Bearly Art Glue. The poinsettias were adhered with thin foam squares. 

I hot foiled the Spellbinders Mistletoe Greetings Press Plate onto white cardstock using Spellbinders Champagne Foil and the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System. It was cut out using the coordinating die and adhered to the card with more thin foam tape. 

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I really wanted to add gems to the centres of the poinsettias but I needed to mail/post these cards out and so wanted to keep them as flat as possible! Thank you so much for stopping by today, I really do appreciate it. I hope you have a wonderful day!