The Greetery Christmas Time Collection Day 1

Christmas time is here, Happiness and cheer! Hello and welcome to day 1 of the Christmas Time collection from The Greetery! You can guarantee that Christmas at The Greetery is going to be fabulous, and this year is no exception! I know you will love these new products as much as I do! My mind is still whirling with tons of ideas to use these beautiful stamps and dies! Make sure to head to The Greetery Blog for all of the official "Meet and Greet" information for each new product being featured today! As always, there will be a chance to win one of TWO $50 gift certificates; simply leave a comment here and on the other designers' blogs as the winners will be picked from the comments.

My first card for today uses the beautiful and versatile "Cathedral Window" die paired with the new Opposites Attract: Holiday stamp set and the gorgeous new Winterberry stamp/stencil/die suite of products. The finishing touch is a few sprigs of the new Pine Wisps dies! These will be used A LOT over the next three days because I love them THAT much!

The Cathedral Window stencil allows you to create different stained glass window options, but for today's card, I chose to keep it simple with a lit up window inked up in different shades of yellow and mustard to give it that realistic look!

I built the frame part of the window up so that I could add quite a bit of glitter into the frame pieces to give it a look of snow on the windowpanes. I love how it turned out. Before I adhered all of the different elements to the card base, I used the previously released Brick Layer Die to give some subtle detail to the corners of the cathedral windows in both the upper right corner and lower left corner. I ended up shifting the window a bit in the end, so if I did it again, I would place the brick detail a little differently, but I really like how it turned out.

This gorgeous Winterberry cluster was created by using both the stencil and stamp set to add in the details. I also stamped out the smaller pieces included in the set and have fun tucking them here and there on other projects, so stay tuned for those!

The Pine Wisps are die cut from white cardstock and then inked up using an assortment of Distress Oxide inks. I also added some Alene's Glitter Snow to the branches and good dusting of tinsel glitter! The Opposites Attract: Holiday stamp set is the perfect finishing touch for this simple design. I added a bit of darker ink the top portion of the "noel" stamp and then glued the "joyeux" portion directly to the leaf hanging down!

My second card for today used that gorgeous Winterberry cluster again, but this time I accented it with the beautiful new "JOY" die. It is also available as a Hot Foil plate, which is so much fun, but in the end, this die cut gold and red piece was the perfect choice for this card.

Christmas and plaid go hand-in-hand, so I stenciled a panel of linen cardstock using the Tartan Builder Diagonal Stencil in the same ink colors that I used on the Winterberry cluster, but I used a lighter hand.

I cut the panel to 3 3/4 inches by 5 inches and layered it onto an A2 Pine Feather cardbase using foam squares. I layered the largest circle from the Nordic Circles on top and then added the winterberry cluster. 

The JOY was die cut from gold cardstock and the base was cut from Pure Poppy cardstock and then glued together using liquid glue. I layered it directly on top of the winterberry cluster using foam squares.

I chose to use the script portion from the Opposites Attract: Holiday stamp set to accent the large JOY word. Of course the berries and leaves got a nice dusting of glitter for some holiday sparkle and shine!

Well, this is all for today, but make sure to join me tomorrow for day 2 of full reveals! You're going to love it! Don't forget to head to the other designers' blogs to see how they've used these beautiful new Christmas products! Thanks for fluttering by!

Keeway Tsao

Angelica Conrad

Laurie Willison

Wanda Guess

Dawn McVey

Heather Nichols

Norine Borys