SSS Cozy Hugs, Berry Stems

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It's almost November, and I find myself in familiar territory again....almost Christmas and hardly any Christmas cards to speak of!  It's about to get very Christamay around here!  Today's card features the new Berry Stems dies from Simon's Cozy Hugs release as well as some Christmas items Simon released last year.

The Berry Stems dies include two different sizes of greens, two different berry stems (which includes both the stem pieces as well as the individual berries) and a twig die which isn't featured here.

I cut my greens from a medium green cardstock and then used Pine ink to add a little extra color/variation.

The berry stems themselves were cut from kraft and the berries from red.

I knew I wanted to use a kraft background, so in order to make the die cut berry stems pop a bit more, I used Latte ink to add a bit of shadow in the center of the card.  I also added a bit of inking to the edges of my panel.

For some texture, I ran the panel through my die cutting machine using the Delicate Pine Branches embossing folder.  I also added some white splatter to the panel.

Once dry, the panel was machine stitched to my card base, and the die cut pieces were arranged and adhered.

The sentiment is from the Snowflake Edges set and was white embossed on a small kraft banner which was popped up over my die cut pieces.

One more card for my Christmas pile!