Warm Winter Wishes

Happy Monday!  How about this card for using up your left over pieces!  I cut a couple of holly borders for another card I was making and I happened to have placed them on the card so that they lined up rather nicely.  When I looked at this negative piece, I just thought it would make a lovely long card.  I really like that shape for a card too.  Since the card was so simple, I decided to have a bit of fun with the background piece.  There is a close up below but I used my scoreboard and made a grid that shows through the cut out holly sections.  I had some leftover pieces from the borders that I cut so I nipped sections out of them to create the corner pieces.  I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with one of the holiday tag shapes.  I inked it with Antique Linen while in the die.  When I removed it from the die, I used some cut 'n dry foam and Black Soot distress ink and added a light inking to the very edge of the die.  I ties a small bow using the cream sillky crush ribbon and added it to the centre of the card with a glue dot.  I added my holiday tag and a fancy black button to the centre of my bow.  I used two small strips of flatback pearls to add to the long sides of the card.  I pierced the edges to finish the card.