Christmas Holly Arch

I’m on the Memory Box blog today with another Christmas card created with several products from the new Christmas Cheer release. I started with one of the white Nested Globes which I added to a card base of Cherry Red cardstock—a perfect Christmas red.

After die cutting the holly from a pretty green paper in the Greenery Paper Pad, I added some ink blending to the base of the holly leaves.  To arrange the holly around the top of the arch, I needed to snip some of the holly branches apart and reassemble them so they would follow the curve of the globe. 

By applying a darker red ink to red cardstock from the Blush Paper Pad I created an ombre panel for die cutting the sentiment. I added it to a vellum shadow layer and then to the white globe. I splattered some gold watercolor paint to create some interest on the white panel which would have been much easier if I had done it before adding the globe to the card base! The beautiful new Perky Bow was added to the center of the arch along with some gold berries. To balance the design I added a holly leaf and some berries to accent the sentiment as well as some gold berries to the holly on the arch.

I’m adding this to the gallery at The Card Concept for the optional challenge: Christmas in July (the challenge is open until the end of August). It’s a Clean and Layered card inspired by the colors red, green, gold, and white. One more Christmas card for the stash!