Pines Three Ways Card ... And A Lucky Surprise Winner!!!

Before I share today's card, be sure you scroll down all the way to the end because I have a surprise winner for some Christmas goodies.  Now, for today's card.  I call this card my Pines 3 Ways card ... embossed and sponged, the pine tree shape, and the pines in the DSP.

Placing the top piece (with the cut out tree) on dimensionals gives a nice depth to the front of the card.

As always, I decorated the inside of the card and the envelope to all coordinate.

I admit that I don't use Garden Green as much as I could be, but I love it with this DSP and it makes a really pretty card with the Cherry Cobbler accents.

And now ... a surprise announcement of a lucky winner!  I decided to hold a drawing in December for a lucky someone to win some special Christmas goodies.  I placed the names of all my loyal customers into a jar, shook it up and sprinkled it out onto the floor.  I told Toby Joe to "choose one."  He did! 

Drum roll, please:

The lucky winner is Jessica Brunner!!!  Congrats, Jessica.  Let me know when you'd like to stop by and claim your prize.

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- I'll have class schedules coming out soon for 2017.

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Copper Pines

Here's another Christmas card for you today.  This one has a lot of beautiful copper.  I love it!  

Updates:

- My card kits are sold out. 

- I have 4 more Tin of Tags kits available, if you'd like to join   

  us at my Dec. 12 Scraps and Prayers.  I can get out some   

  extra chairs:)

- I'll have class schedules coming out soon for 2017.

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November Christmas Retreat, Card 6

Today's card is the 6th and final card that we'll be making at my November Christmas Retreat.  I really like this little reindeer. 

My color story:
Early Espresso
Crumb Cake
Cherry Cobbler
and Copper Foil (for the embossed reindeer)

You can place the embossed pine sprigs to be at the top or the bottom of your design.  I decided to place mine at the top of the outside of my card and at the bottom on the inside of my card.  I like both ways of using them.

If you've ever tried to glue pieces cut from Copper Foil sheets, you know how messy they look if you get any glue onto the copper piece.  My solution for this was to cut the reindeer from the Early Espresso piece and, after embossing the copper piece, I attached the Early Espresso piece to the copper by placing the glue (Liquid Tombow) on the back of the Early Espresso piece --- no stress --- no mess:)

I still have a few openings left for the November Christmas Retreat.  Today is the last day to register for this great class.  It's going to be a lot of fun and you'll go home with 18 cards --- 3 of each design.
If you are unable to attend, kits are available for $30.

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