Going Rustic with Ornamental Pine

Good morning peeps.

It's Merry Monday time.

Awesome Nina is our hostess this week.

What a perfect opportunity to use my favorite set

from the Holiday Mini Catalog, Ornamental Pine!

I even sponged around the edges for a vintage look

and didn't end up throwing it away!

LOL, I think I finally learned to use a light touch.

But I had to do a clean version too.

I got the idea of using the pine cones from Brian King

who was our awesome Guest Designer last month.

That post led me to Amy Whelan's blog for the how-to.

Thank you both for this idea.

I love it!

The Paper Players Challenge

is led by our friend LeAnne this week.

That first card looks vintage to me.

Karren said I should link this to Just Us Girls Challenge.

They're looking for wreaths.

I used Baked Brown Sugar ink and stamped the pine cones 3 times without re-inking.

Then I took out the masking circle and turned the pine cones around 

stamping around the circle again with the tops pointing in.

(When I made pine cone wreaths, I always had the pine cones going every which way.)

This was lots of fun and much easier than making a real wreath!

Which way do you like the best

Clean or dirty distressed?

I can't wait to see what you come up with for our rustic challenge this week.

Hope you join us at Merry Monday.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ornamental Pine, Greetings of the Season (retired)

Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:  Baked Brown Sugar, Very Vanilla

Other:  Simply Scored, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Stampin' Sponge (card 1), Basic Pearls colored with Cherry Cobbler Blendie (card 2)

All supplies are Stampin'  Up! unless otherwise noted