Christmas Wreath Builder Cards

I'm sharing three cards today made a whole lot easier with a great set of wreath templates I bought recently from fellow crafter Debs who has inspired me with some of her makes you can see them over on her blog here.  These cards are also part of the A-Z Daily Challenge I'm taking part in over on the Docrafts gallery.

This first card is F for Frosted Foliage ... I've stamped the outer wreath foliage using Memento inks in green, blue & brown then added a die cut poinsettia in the centre and gave it a frosted look with frosted lace stickles and a few pearls.

Second card is H for Horn ... stamped in green, blue & purple inks and more of an open flowing design with a music horn in the middle.  Sentiment placed on the bottom corner hides a finger smudge!

Third card is E for Eight ... eight snowmen coloured with promarkers, lots of snowflakes stamped in blue to break up the white space with a sentiment in the middle.  I kept with the eight theme and made my card base an octagon.

The combination of using a stamping platform with wreath templates means a stamped design can be repeated either eight or four times and they line up perfectly just by rotating your card in sequence around the template.  Take a look ... Debs has made a video tutorial which you can see here.  The possibilities are endless using any small stamps you might have to make interesting pattern designs.

I'm currently up to letter Q in the A-Z Daily Challenge but with starting a new job I've not had time to update my blog as often as I'd like.  I'll group a few more of them together and blog them when I can.

Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x