Merry and Bright Blossoms

I've been mulling over the Metallic Element plus One Other Colour challenge over at Less is More this week and finally hit on an idea using the berries from Stampin' Up's Bright Blossoms set. Come and have a look:

Gold is my metallic of choice at the moment and I love the way it looks with the gorgeous Gumball Green. The berry image is quite small but you can repeat stamp it to make a larger-looking image - here I surrounded the sentiment on my tag with versamarked berries and heat embossed them with gold embossing powder.

Your eyes aren't deceiving you - these are Stampin' Up sequins! They're not available to buy yet but coming soon I promise! The gold twisted cord is what the sequins come threaded on - isn't it gorgeous?!

Here's what you'll need to make this project

Stamps: Bright Blossoms, Delightful Dozen

Ink: Early Espresso

Card stock: Gumball Green, Very Vanilla for insert

Other: Versamark, gold embossing powder, heat tool, gold sequins and cord (coming soon!), envelope board for rounding corners, stamp-a-majig

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We finally got our tree decorated! My husband has been away this weekend but got straight onto it when he returned. "Any instructions for sawing the bottom off the Christmas tree?" he asked. "Yes," I replied. "Don't take any height off it and if it won't fit into the stand, take some off the trunk vertically." He stared at me blankly. "Shall I draw it for you?" I suggested. "No it's fine," he said. "I think I understand. Alarm bells started ringing in my head. "You THINK you understand?" I said and then, half joking: "Please ask questions now won't you - I'd much rather answer questions now than shout at you for getting it wrong!" He side-eyed me as he walked past with the saw. " Is this what you say at the hairdresser?" he said.

See you tomorrow,