Today I am sharing the cards made for my November classes featuring the gorgeous Christmas Pinecones Dies. I don’t know about you, but I looked at the large intricate dies and wondered how I could use them ….. other then the obvious – die cut, add to the card front and slap a sentiment in the middle. I wanted to show my ladies the versatility of cutting the die cut piece apart.

Colours used in this project are:

 

The first thing we did was to die cut the large detailed foliage die from a ¼ sheet of Garden Green card. This is the piece that we cut apart and used on all our cards.

We always start with the fiddliest, most complicated card first, the idea being that we get this over while we are still concentrating!!

Christmas Pinecone Fun Fold

Soft Succulent card base – 6½” by 5⅞” scored at 2⅜”
Garden Green – 5¾” by 1⅞”
Gold Foil – 5¾” by 3⅞” by ⅜”
Crumb Cake 4¼” by 3¼”
BW – 4” by 2¼”
Basic White – 5½” by 3¾” for the inside
Scrap Soft Suede & Gold Foil
Basic White Envelope

 

We embossed panel the narrow Garden Green panel using the Mini Cut & Emboss Machine and one of the Wintry 3D Embossing Folders and added it to the smaller front flap of the Soft Succulent card base. The Gold Foil strip was then butted up to it.

We used either the pinecone or sprig to decorate the large Basic White panel and glued it to the inside of the card

We added glue to the left-hand side of the Crumb Cake scalloped rectangle – which I had cut ahead of time using the Scalloped Contour Dies, and added it to the left flap of the card base.

The sentiment, from the Christmas to Remember stamp set was stamped in Garden Green   onto the white card, die cut using one of the labels from the Seasonal Labels dies and add to the Crumb Cake panel on Dimensionals.

The detailed pinecone (gold) and Soft Suede pinecone base – cut by me ahead of time using the Seasonal Labels Dies, were glued together then and added to the label front with glue and/or dimensionals.

We then snipped apart the foliage from the large die cut and tucked sprigs behind the pinecones.

Pinecones on an embossed layer with a banner

Garden Green card base – 8¼” by 5⅞” scored at 4⅛”
Crumb Cake – 5⅞” by 1⅜” – ends flagged
BW – 4½” by 3⅜”
Soft Succulent – 4” by 3¼” – embossed with Wintry 3D folder
Gold Foil – 3⅞” by ¼”
BW – 5½” by 3¾” – for the inside
Scrap Soft Suede & Gold Foil
Basic White Envelope

 

We flagged the ends of the Crumb Cake layer and added it to the Garden Green card base.

We embossed the Soft Succulent panel as above and added the panel to the smaller Basic White layer and added the strip of Gold Foil to the side. This piece was then mounted on the card front on Dimensionals.

The sentiment was stamped on the label, which I had die cut ahead of time and added to the card front on Dimensionals.

We assembled the die cut pinecones and added then with sprigs of foliage behind the label.

Two Small Pinecones on a card

Crumb Cake card base – 8¼” by 5⅞” scored at 4⅛”
Garden Green – 3¾” by 3¼”
Gold Foil – 3¾”” by ⅜”
Basic White label from the Seasonal Labels dies
Basic White – 5½” by 3¾” for the inside
Die cut foliage panel – Garden Green
Die cut pinecone bases and detail – Soft Suede & Gold Foil
Basic White Envelope

We embossed the garden green panel with the same Wintry 3D Embossing Panel and added it to the Crumb Cake card front. The Gold Foil strip was added above it

The sentiment was stamped on the previously die cut label and added to the card front on Dimensionals.

We assembled the die cut pinecones and added then with sprigs of foliage onto the top of the label.

We added a small gold embellishment to each card to finish it.

Such a fun week of classes. I hope you like the cards

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

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