Rustic Pines

Can you believe September is almost over? At CHF that means it's time for a new stamp of the month. These pine trees are versatile enough to do all sorts of things but of course since I'm still trying to keep up with a holiday card each day during the WCMD blog tour, I've used it to make a Christmas card.

Pairing up the trees with the woodgrain backgrounder lends a rustic kind of feel, I think. I didn't have any ribbon the right kind of colour so I used a Copic marker (Crimson) on a piece of plain white silk ribbon to get what I wanted. It matches the sentiment's ink colour much better in real life, the sheen of the silk has made it a bit pinker than it should be in the photograph, I'm afraid.

Stamps (Cornish Heritage Farms):
The Pines (Stamp of the Month - releasing October 1st)
Woodgrain backgrounder
Vintage Christmas Expressions (Mona Lisa Moments line)

Paper:
Simply Smooth Vanilla
Olive dark (Prism Papers)
Kraft

Ink:
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Pearlescent Ivy)
Versafine by Tsukineko (Crimson Red)
Tim Holtz Distress ink by Ranger (Vintage Photo)

Other:
Labels One Nestabilities by Spellbinder
Silk ribbon (dyed with Copic marker)

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