SSS DieCember, Forest Background

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It's DieCember release day at Simon Says Stamp! As the name suggests, this release is very die heavy. I have a couple designs in this release including the Forest Background cover I'm sharing today, which was also a Thanksgiving doorbuster last week.

For my first card today, I die cut a panel of green cardstock, and used just four of the tree layers. These were inked from the bottom up using Field and Pine.

for the background, I cut a panel of blue cardstock and gold embossed the sentiment from my Stacked Holiday Sentiments set. Fun fact, I actually designed that stamp set to coordinate with this cover plate.

I added a bit of inking around the sentiment using Night ink, and also added some gold splatter using my Starry Colors watercolors.

Once the panel was complete, I adhered the tree layers to the bottom half of the panel, trimming off the excess, and then adhered the completed panel to my card base.

This next set of cards was a four for the price of one situation. I wanted to go with a metallic, monochromatic look. I die cut the panel four times from white, Matte Silver cardstock, and from a couple of pieces of paper from a very old DCWV glitter stack. Those glitter papers are very thin, so I adhered them to a less heavy white cardstock first so that the pieces wouldn't be too flimsy after diecutting.

Once my die cutting was done, I mixed and matched the different layers to create my card panels. For some of them, I used the outside rectangle frame, and for others, I went without.

This card features both of the glitter papers as well as Matte Silver for the trees, and I used white at the top for the 'sky'. The sentiment, from the Stacked Holiday Sentiments set was silver embossed and die cut.

This next card uses the same sentiment, but this time, instead of diecutting, I added a Matte Silver mat.  The panel itself used the lighter glitter paper, white, and Matte Silver.

Next up, this card uses both of the glitter papers as well as white, and then the Merry & Bright sentiment cut from Matte Gold and layered over three other die cuts.

Finally, this last card uses Matte Silver, the darker glitter paper, and white cardstock as well as another of the sentiments from the Stacked Holiday Sentiments set.

These were really fun and easy to make, and if sparkle and shine is not your thing, you can always just mix and match patterned papers or different colors of cardstock.

Be sure to head over to Simon to see the full DieCember  release, and I'll see you back here tomorrow for a fun blog hop!