Morning all!
I’m over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today sharing a couple of cards with the oh so popular Big Beautiful Bow die set from The Greetery, which was restocked just yesterday along with a few other festive favourites.
If you watched the Intro video that Betsy created for this die set, you’ll have seen that you can easily make two cards in one go by cutting the bow elements from two coordinating shades of cardstock and swapping over the layered details when you assemble the bows.
I chose forest green and fern green for my bows and found a great colour to pair them with: pale pink.
Stamp: The Greetery – Sentiment Suite: Christmas
Dies: The Greetery – Herringbone Parquet, The Greetery – Big Beautiful Bow, The Greetery – Big Branches Eucalyptus, The Greetery – BotaniCuts Juniper
I ran the two pink panels through my die cutting machine with the Herringbone Parquet die and splattered the background panels with copper metallic paint for extra sparkle.
For a touch of greenery, I grabbed the Big Branches Eucalyptus dies (released last year) and the new BotaniCuts Juniper dies.
Any of The Greetery’s Big Branches would work perfectly here. They were originally designed with festive gift wrapping in mind, but the larger size is great for filling the white space on cards, and you can cut the branches to the length you need to pop behind the bow.
Stamp: The Greetery – Sentiment Suite: Christmas
Dies: The Greetery – Herringbone Parquet, The Greetery – Big Beautiful Bow, The Greetery – Big Branches Eucalyptus, The Greetery – BotaniCuts Juniper
For each card, I cut two of everything in the greenery sets I used.
I blended some green ink on the eucalyptus branches and splattered them with white paint.
For the juniper branches, I found a nice and dark pine green cardstock in my stash and splattered the branches with pearlescent white paint. I cut the berries from cream cardstock and added Clear Rock Candy glitter for a touch of wintry sparkle.
Top tip: Save time by cutting and prepping all the greenery first, so that the paint splatters, glitter and glue are all well and truly dry before you start assembling everything.
The tags from the Big Beautiful Bow set are cut from cream cardstock and stamped with sentiments from the Sentiment Suite: Christmas stamp set, which I find super handy for little tags like these.
The tags have silver thread tied to them and are attached under the knot of the bow.
And there we have it, two cards with a slightly different look – but full of festive charm.
Until next time, happy crafting!
 The Greetery – Sentiment Suite: Christmas stamps Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Herringbone Parquet die Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Big Beautiful Bow dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – Big Branches Eucalyptus dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 The Greetery – BotaniCuts Juniper dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG |
 Bazzill Cardshoppe – Butter Mints Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Bazzill Cardshoppe – Pale Rose Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 The Stamp Market – Fern cardstock Shop at: MISC |
 The Stamp Market – Forest cardstock Shop at: MISC |
 Tim Holtz – Distress Glitter – Clear Rock Candy Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Dr. Pj. Martin’s Bleed Proof White watercolour Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36-pan watercolour set Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Bearly Art – Precision Craft Glue Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Lawn Fawn – Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 MISTI stamping tool Shop at: SBC |
 Waffle Flower – 6.5 x 8.5 Grip Mat Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Craft blending brushes Shop at: AZ (UK) |
 Tim Holtz – Distress Sprayer Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Stampers Anonymous Splat Box Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Waffle Flower – Mini Media Mat Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK) |
 Ranger – Artist brush set Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
 Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ (UK) | SBC |
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