Nuthatch and Floral Gathering card for the holidays

With the holidays fast approaching I have been thinking about new holiday cards with a nature theme.  A nuthatch, earthy colors and a touch of burgundy are nicely combined to make that perfect card.

 

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Using the concentric circle template, smudge sage ink on the outer edge and umber ink on the inner.

 

Stamp the large flower cluster in Burgundy.

Stamp the small flower cluster in Ash Rose

 

Stamp the large fern in Bamboo

Stamp the small fern in Green Tea

Stamp the starflowers in Bamboo

Stamp the sprig in Pinecone

Dot around the edge of the outer circle with a fine tipped black pen

Smudge the edges with Khaki

Stamp the Nuthatch in Black and color in with red

Using the small shapes template, center the long heart over the nuthatch and color around the edges

with a small brush in Sage

 

Stamp the sprig around the edges of the heart in Sage

Cut out the heart in an irregular wave with small scissors

Back with red card stock and cut out again to show a thin red border

Add a green card jacket, ribbon, pop dots for lift and Merry Christmas or the sentiment of your choice.

Until next time, Happy Stamping from Susan and the rest of the gang at Rubber Stamp Tapestry!

Comments

[Mary Elizabeth]

Beautiful card! That you so much for always giving us the details ~ right down to the dotted edge and the irregular wave around the heart! My favorite is the sage sprig stamped in the heart ~ so soft.

[Char Maguire]

LOVE this card (as usual) but the photo that says "stamp the starflower" and the one that says "stamp the sprig" are reversed from what the caption says to do. But as usual, your artwork simply gets me so jazzed I have to run out and pull out my RST collection! I haven't stamped in quite some time, but you KNOW what I'll be doing today...right? ;-) Thanks for a great site and such wonderful eye candy!

[Barbara Dashwood]

I have been mulling over nature inspired Christmas cards and voila! The card is just beautiful. Great timing and thank you!