Ornamental Pine with Beauty of the Season

It's Merry Monday time again.

This card is a bit out of my normal CAS comfort range.

But it was so much fun to make!

I just started stamping pine boughs and pine cones.

Then I spotted this cardinal that I'd colored and it just came together.

Deanne is our hostess this week

and she chose one of my favorite subjects.

There's a lot of fussy cutting on this card.

These beautiful pine cones are from the Ornamental Pine set.
I stamped them in Soft Suede and fussy cut them out.

After curling them a bit with a bone folder, I adhered them with dimensionals.

Makes them look real doesn't it?

The bird was colored with Blendabilities and fussy cut and
 popped up on dimensionals too.

It's almost time to mail those Christmas cards out.

Hope you'll join us at  Merry Monday this week.

So glad you could stop by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ornamental Pine, Beauty of the Season

Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede, Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Naturals White, Whisper White

Other:  Blendabilities (Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake), SU Marker (Basic Black), White Gel Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted