Hi Pinkfresh friends!

Thanks of stopping by today. The festive season is creeping up fast so, I was in the mood to design a Merry & Bright Christmas card to give you some festive inspiration. 

I am a bit of a traditional gal when it comes to festive cards. There's something about greens and reds that just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Before ink bleeding, I cut some masking tape to the shape of a snow bank which I then placed at the bottom part of an A2 panel.

Pinkfresh Studio have such a fantastic buffet of greens and I used four of them to create this bold background. Sage, Eucalyptus, Spruce Tips and Lush Forest.

I cut the panel with the versatile Blanket Stitched Rectangles Die and repeated this for an extra piece of white cardstock that, I had also cut in the shape of a second snow bank. 

On our design team we have the talented Isha Gupta. Isha designed this beautiful stamp set called Festive Foliage Tree. The image is so elegant and I adore the fonted sentiments!

With the Festive Foliage Tree comes coordinating stencils, press plate and dies-everything you need for whatever technique. I chose to lightly stamp the tree in Misty Coast and then use the coordinating stencils to ink blend-Fresh Pear, Olive, Citron, Spanish Moss, Passion Fruit and Candy Apple. 

Then, I placed the ink blended tree back into my MISTI and re-stamped in Detailed Black Ink. With the same black ink to stamp two sentiments. Both of which are in the same stamp set.

I layered up the snow banks and added the die cut tree between them then, I added some white splatter for snow and some Metallic Gold Pearls on the tree.

You could actually do a variety of coloured backgrounds to mass produce this design, so why not give it a go yourself? 

As my usual, keep and eye out for my reel over on Instagram @pinkfreshstudio as it really helps show this card come together. 

Happy crafting friends!

Cheryl