Holly and Snowflake Wreath

Hi all.  I thought it was about time I properly started my Christmas cards and I managed to get hold of a copy of Die Cutting Essentials Magazine Issue 109 which had a Memory Box Wreath Die and which I had seen for sale and thought it was pretty and I do have a soft spot for wreath shapes on cards and as it wasn't brand new I did get it a little cheaper which is always good..lol.  This is the first time I have used it. 

I saw this idea in the magazine which had four colours of strips of card diagonally over the background but I decided to use a piece of paper from an old Indigoblu box kit..not sure which one though, but I liked the check design and so I started with this cut to fit a 6" square white card.  I then cut a circle from another piece of white card just a bit smaller than the patterned paper and with a circle aperture slightly larger than the wreath, and adhered that over the patterned paper.  I then cut the wreath twice, once from white and again from silver mirri.  I then glued the outline of the wreath inside the aperture and then I filled the white leaves back into the relevant spaces, luckily not too time consuming.  I then cut out the two snowflakes off the silver one which I had managed to keep intact in the die and glued then over the white ones and, now the fiddly part, getting all the little silver berries into their relevant holes, and lastly I cut a silver bow and the letters for Noel from another piece of silver mirri and glued them in place.  The letters were extremely small and I think instead of using glue next time I will use some sticky sheet which would be quicker and easier.  I love the finished look and I may make a few more but maybe a different style..this was definitely not one to batch make.

Thank you for visiting me here today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

Rudolph Days Challenge - Oct. '26 Anything Christmas Goes.

Allsorts Challenge - No 851 Feminine/Anything Goes.

ABC Christmas Challenge - 'U' & 'V' - Unused Stash/Violet (mine is Unused Stash.

Girlz Creative Christmas Challenge - No. 200 Traditional/Non-Traditional Colours.

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge - No 122 Anything Christmas Goes.

A Cut Above Challenge - Oct ' 26 Anything Using a Die Cut Goes.

NBUS Challenge - No. 91 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.