Deck The Halls

Oh, my word! Have you seen the new Christmas release?  As usual, Mark has knocked it out of the park with these fabulous set of stamps, perfect for quick or more detailed makes.  For my DT make this fortnight, I’m using Sketched Holly, which has two sizes of holly sprig plus separate leaves and berries and two fab sentiments in a really cool font.  What’s not to love?

To begin, I gold heat-embossed the single leaves around the edge of a square of green card.  This was the adhered to a 5¾” card blank.

For the main panel, I cut a white square and stamped then clear heat-embossed the two sprigs of holly on diagonally opposite corners.  The sentiment was then stamped and clear heat-embossed a couple of times.

Using a black fineliner, I added a wonky dotted line to line up with the sentiments to make a rough square.

To add some colour, I used a variety of alcohol markers and coloured the berries and leaves.

After gluing the panel in place on the card, I used a Wink of Stella pen on the leaves and berries for some shimmer.  To give the berries a 3D look, I added some clear Nuvo Drops and left to dry overnight.

There are so many possibilities with this set; I think it's brilliant for clean and simple.