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Monday, September 17, 2018

CAS Christmas September Reminder

Wow, halfway through September 
and almost officially FALL!

Today is our mid-month Reminder
for 
CAS Christmas Card Challenge.

I'm your hostess the theme is ---
 



I used another wreath die, this time from WPlus9.  It's actually a spring die but as you see, you can change up the colors to fit any season or occasion.  For this card, cut a panel using a die from Catherine Pooler to center my wreath upon.  The wreath I cut in white cardstock and from inked cardstock using Eucalyptus dye ink by Catherine Pooler.  The berries are cut from white cardstock triple embossed in a burgundy emboss powder, reaally old emboss powder I wanted to try and use up.  It took a couple times through the Big Shot with my metal shim due to the thick layer of powder.  I also stamped the sentiment in Versamark on vellum and embossed it twice in the same powder.  I used my Misti to stamp the  sentiment so I could stamp it a second time correctly for the second round of embossing.  The bow is a stamp from the Wonderful Wreath set by Catherine pooler, stamped in Versamark and embossed in silver.  To assembler, I adhered the die cut panel to a Neenah Solar white 110 lb cardbase.  Next I layered two wreaths, one white, then the colored on on top staggered with the berries and bow.  Then I carefully adhered the vellumed sentiment placing glue onto the backside where the sentiment was stamped, in the middle.  The vellum curled a bit from the embossing but it did lay down pretty nicely after photographing and placing a book on top of it for a bit.  

Be sure and stop by the CAS Christmas blog and see what all my teamie's have created mid-month, as well as give a shout out to our Guest Designer, Birgit!

And remember, there's still about a week to play along with us and add to your Christmas card stash!

CAS Christmas Blessings!

11 comments:

Loll said...

Beautiful wreath Nance!! Love the layering of the white under the coloured layer ... adds some dimension and fullness. The vellum heat embossed sentiment circle is so pretty and very creative. I've never seen it done like this before! xx

Bonnie said...

Another beautiful wreath, Nance! Love the rich green and double embossed berries! The vellum with the embossed sentiment is fantastic! I need to remember that! Love the shaped piece the wreath is mounted on! Wonderful challenge, my friend!

Pam Sparks said...

Beautiful, elegant card Nance!

Trina P. said...

Beautiful, Nance! Gotta love products that can be used all year round! You did a fantastic job creating depth and dimension on your wreath from multiple heat embossing to layering on top of the white die cut. Love the sentiment embossed on vellum.. adds a touch of elegance. xx

Kim Heggins said...

gorgeous, love your beautiful wreath!

Julia Aston said...

What a sweet die cut wreath Nance! love the dark green and burgundy against the white!

Marcia Hill said...

Beautiful wreath Nance!! So simple but so striking!! Had to laugh that I was admiring the frame you used and then realized that I have that...guess I don't have to go shopping after all!! You sure picked a great challenge this month...so many pretty cards from the DT and in the gallery!! :0)

Papercraft Boutique said...

Love the clean and crisp look of the card, Nance! It looks like the deep green and burgundy wreath is on fresh snow.
The shape of the die-cut center panel adds design interest and the heat-embossed sentiment on the vellum piece adds texture interest.
Thank you for hosing a fun challenge this month! Hideko xx

Susan said...

Love the wreath - it looks great on the inverted corner die!

Mac Mable said...

So classy and so very elegant and the most perfect CAS card x.

Linda said...

Nance, thanks for the great challenge this month. Your wreath is so very beautiful with the vellum and sentiment in the center. Beautiful card. So glad that you are safe from the hurricane and hope you are having a great week.