Take a Bough!!!

Some of the ladies at work have talked me into making their Christmas cards! They would like to have some handmade cards to give to family members and special friends. And I'm trying to design some nice cards that are fairly easy to duplicate, so that I'm not spending hours and hours watercolouring or embossing like a fool until the wee hours of the morning every night from now until Christmas Eve!!!

So here is my first design. I used the new Papertrey set called Take a Bough. I've done it on three different cards with basically the same layout, just changing the colours, sentiment and embellishments.

The first one was done using the Colour Combination Challenge on SCS from Tuesday. It is a non traditional combo and I really like it!! The colours I used are River Rock, Blue Bayou, Chocolate Chip for the tree branch and gold for the star and the ornament hooks. I also used my ticket corner punch and gold cord.



This next one is a more traditional colour combo and one that I use a lot at Christmas. I used Real Red, Brocade Blue, Certainly Celery and Close to Cocoa for the tree branch and the sentiment. Then I used my slot punch to make a little slot for my grosgrain ribbon. On this one I don't know if you can see it, but I added a Page Pebble on the centre ornament which is like a clear epoxy sticker that covers it, makes it shiny and make it more of a focal point.



And for this last one I used Always Artichoke, Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip for the tree branch and silver for the ornament hooks. I changed up the sentiment again and added some silver cord this time.

I'm using a 6x6 scrapbook album and inserting a card in each of the pages and I will number them so that people can pick which card they want. Then I will include a sheet with all the sentiments for inside the cards and they can choose which one they would prefer.

Let me know which one you like the best!!!