TGIF – Holiday Box Top Berries with Norine

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Happy Friday, friends! It’s been a totally fun week, but I have to admit, I’m ready for the weekend! We’ll be working hard here today to get as many of the release orders out the door as we can! One thing to note…Monday is a postal holiday. We’ll work hard to get as many out as we can Friday and Saturday AM, and then *hopefully* we’ll be able to get the remainder out on Tuesday when the mail picks up again after the Monday holiday! We know waiting isn’t fun! 😊

Anyway! Norine is here today to round out our week with the most gorgeous project using some of the goodies from the new release. Bonus! 🙂

Hello Greetery friends!  Welcome back to another TGIF post!  I have one more project to share from the Christmas Time release that hit the store yesterday!  

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I made this card, using the Ornament Box Top Vertical stamp and die along with the Winterberry stamps and dies and the Pine Wisp dies.  Actually, there’s also a few sprigs of greenery from other Greetery sets that I had stashed in my leftovers bag from other projects.  I had the card put together and finished (I thought) but it just didn’t seem full enough and the L.O. bag was within reach, so that’s what I turned to!

I started by stamping the vertical Ornament Box Top onto Neenah Solar White cardstock, and trimming the sides slightly smaller than A2.  While the stamp was set up in the MISTI, I stamped a few more, for some other just-in-case situation, including one with red ink.

Next, I stamped the base layers of the large Winterberry clusters then added the detail layers with stamps.  I also deepened some of the shaded areas with some Copic markers, then I die cut the whole berry cluster.  I die cut the three smallest wisps in the Pine Wisp set from heavy weight white cardstock then colored them with Copic markers as I’m not as adept at ink blending color onto the wispy pine needles without bending and mashing them.

To give the pine wisps a frosty, freezey appearance, I smeared some embossing paste onto my craft mat, added liquid glue to it and smooshed them together until it was the consistency that would easily stick to the wisps when brushed on with a palette knife.  Then I poured clear glass glitter over the paste and set them aside to dry and harden.  The liquid glue added to the paste makes it softer and more malleable and helps it stick to paper, and then once the adhesive dries, it gives the paste a more translucent quality which which helps the glass glitter/snow remain the focus!

I adhered the Ornament Box Top panel to a folded card base, then using the coordinating dies for the Box Top stamp, I die cut the Merry and Bright banner at the top, and the 100% guarantee badge at the bottom from the red stamped panel.  I die-cut extra layers for each of those shapes and stacked and adhered them together before gluing them to the card base, right on top of the original images.  Then I assembled the Winterberry bouquet along the side, lining up the straight cut edge with the stamped design and adding in the Pine Wisps and a few small leftover stamped leaf die cuts in my stash.  I used strong liquid adhesive to adhere the cluster to the card front, because that gave me a quick minute to tug and tuck until I was satisfied.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you got some inspiration for your own paper crafting projects!