Floral Christmas Wreath

Hello there! It's Andrea with you sharing an elegant Christmas card featuring Crafty Meraki's Artisan Flora Wreath Dies.

The theme on the blog this week is Christmas in July. I don't have any Crafty Meraki Christmas products, but the Artisan Flora Wreath Dies create gorgeous floral elements that you can use for any season.

I began by diecutting all of my pieces from cream, colored, and metallic cardstocks. To create some dimension, I added inks to the diecuts before assembling them.

I didn't want to detract from the floral elements, so I kept the rest of the card simple. To add some texture to my background, I embossed black cardstock with the Stellar Sparkle Hot Foil Plate. I trimmed down the cardstock to a 5" square and adhered it to a 5 1/4" white cardbase.

I assembled my wreath by gluing the dark green foliage in a circle on my card. Next, I glued the light green stems. For both, I added glue mainly just to the stems so that I could bend up the leaves, and I made sure to tuck the ends of each stem underneath the leaves of a previous stem.

My sentiment is from a retired stamp set I have in my stash. I stamped it with Versamark onto a strip of black cardstock and heat-embossed it with WOW! Metallic Gold Rich Pale Embossing Powder. I used my scissors to "banner" each end of the strip and affixed it to my card with a double layer of foam tape.

I adhered my flowers to my wreath and finished with some gold metallic drops. I just love how this card turned out!

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