Sunday, November 10, 2019

Twofer Card Challenge #22: Holiday Greenery

Grab your holiday greenery stamps, stencils, or dies, and join us for this month's Twofer Card Challenge!  This month, since it's Christmas card making crunch time, Twofer is allowing the two cards to be for the SAME occasion!  My stamp of choice (actually 2) are from PTI's Spruce and Sprigs.  I still decided to use two different occasions, because I use thank you cards at Christmas for people that are so helpful all year long, such as the piano teacher and our hair stylist.
On my Christmas card, I stamped the holly, fussy cut them, and silver heat embossed the edges.  The berries were die cut from red cs with a dot of silver embossing.  The panel was dry embossed with the addition of a circle diffuser so that I could stamp and heat emboss the sentiment on a flat surface.
On the thank you card, the holly, berries, and sprigs of pine were stamped using the MISTI so they could be re-stamped to shade with darker ink.  The card base was flipped so the cluster is the same on the bottom left as it is on the upper right.  The panel was ink blended with PTI Ocean Tides and then speckled with the same ink, watered down and flicked on with a stiff paint brush.  The panel was then die cut with a stitched rectangle.


I hope you will join us for this festive Twofer this month!  Please stop by the Twofer Card Challenge blog and take a look at the wonderful inspiration from our guest designers and design team.   

Supplies:
Stamps:  PTI Spruce and Sprigs, O Holy Night
Dies:  PTI Big Basics: Thanks, SSS Stitched Rectangles, LF Center Picture Window (sun for berries)
Ink:  PTI Ocean Tides, Pinefeather, Prairie Glass, Ripe Avocado, Cocoa Bean, Pure Poppy, Scarlet Jewel, VersaMark Marker
Paper:  PTI Pure Poppy, Smokey Shadow
Other:  SSS Ultra Fine Silver EP, Tim Holtz Embossing Diffuser, WeRMemory Keepers Next Level EF - Geometric, Copic R59

Thanks for coming over to visit!  May the Lord bless you today!
Kara


21 comments:

  1. These are lovely, Kara. Two wonderful designs and festive too. I forgot all about using a diffuser. I have one someplace and don't think I've ever used it. Now I see what it can do and I love the way you used it. So pretty.

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  2. I'm with Brenda, Kara, I have forgotten all about my package of diffusers! Thank you for bringing them back; they are so great for leaving a space for the sediment. I adore both your designs because I've got a deep love for all things holly and evergreen! All the schplatter, heat and dry embossing, and die-cut details are beautiful! Hugs, Darnell

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  3. A very lovely card with the pretty greenery! Beautiful embossing and colors! Wonderful sentiments and soft splatters! Awesome cards as always, Kara!!

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  4. Two beautiful cards, Kara. I'm not sure if I have ever seen a card from you that wasn't colored with Copics. Hope all is well with you.

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  5. Diffuser...don't have any, but I can see that they're going on my wishlist. Both of your cards have me going, "*sigh*." What gorgeous greens you've used. The holly looks like you plucked it and laid it on your card. Love the silver embossed edges, too. Those bits of red in the berries adds just the right amount of pop to your cards, too. Extremely delightful, Yvette (pronounced Kara)! xoxoxo (any snow hitting you tonight?) Bev

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  6. Just absolutely gorgeous, times two - million!!! xx
    =]

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  7. Two gorgeous cards using the holly berry images. They are so well designed and I love that one is a Christmas card and the other is a thank you card.

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  8. These are stunningly beautiful Kara. The gray is such a fabulous card base color to set off your lovely greenery. YOur stamped thankyou is equally lovely.

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  9. That's a really nice idea to give holiday themed thank you cards at Christmas to certain people. I like that idea. A little gift and a thank you card... thinking I might do that for my hairdresser. Stamped or die cut, these are so pretty and with such lovely colors. Cool embossing folder. You are a gifted crafter!

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  10. Kara, these are as beautiful they are elegant!

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  11. Kara... all I can say is WOW! Both cards are amazing and absolutely beautiful!

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  12. Two beautiful cards. Love the design of each one and especially the sentiment and the design of the first one. TFS

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  13. Beautiful, Kara, and I love that you flipped the image on diagonal corners! Beautiful!

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  14. These are just beautiful and such perfect representations of the twofer challenge where you used the same product and arrive at such dramatically different cards! It is always so inspiring to visit your blog!!

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  15. Elegant and gorgeous, Kara ... both of them! What a brilliant idea to use the diffuser for that beautiful sentiment ... the surrounding texture is luscious ... and the silver edged holly and dotted berries are stunning! Love the dimension you created with the two tone stamping ... the greenery frames that bold scripty sentiment beautifully! Thinking of you, my friend, and praying that life is settling down a little for you! Big hugs and bisous, Anita :)

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  16. Just popping in to say that I think your cards are stunning and I love them x.

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  17. Holly never looked so good, Kara. I love it stamped and die cut.

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  18. These are very pretty Kara! They caught my eye immediately! Love the grey card stock as it really makes the holly stand out. I am thrilled to be guesting along with all of you ladies at Twofer!

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  19. Two incredible cards!! I love the way you used the holly to frame your first card and then the stamping on the second card giving those leaves such dimension is wonderful!

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  20. Two gorgeous cards, Kara! Just love the holly, especially the silver edged ones!!

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  21. let me try my comment again. Love both cards and the colors are gorgeous! Love the embossed card and that beautiful Christmas sentiment.

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