Welcome! It's Kelly here today sharing a fun Christmas design using a few of my favorites from the latest release! I had so much fun coloring this beautiful Winterberry Background on one of my cards for the release and I've been dying to try it again! This time I chose to heat emboss it in silver and use cool tones for the leaves with a pop of red for the berries!

I used colored pencils to color the images after it was heat embossed. I die cut the panel using the Essentials: Diagonal Stitched Rectangles to give it the extra detail around the edge. I also die cut the MERRY letters (two of each letter) using both the Lea Uppercase and Lowercase alphabet dies. I glued them together with liquid glue and added them to the oval image from the new Merry and Bright Frame set.

I die cut the BEAUTIFUL new Layered Snowflakes die set out of silver specialty cardstock to accent the oval frame. I added a few jewels to the centers of the snowflakes for added sparkle, shine and detail (and to hide the small foam square).

I added a heat embossed sentiment at the bottom using one of the fun new sentiments from the Our Home to Yours stamp set. I just love the mix of fonts to give this design some added interest!

I toyed around with different colors for the card base; red, teal, white, grey, but in the end opted to use the same grey as the embossed panel for a subdued look. It's amazing how the look of your card can drastically change just by adding a different color border or frame. I thoroughly enjoyed coloring this beautiful background...it is so therapeutic for me! Thanks for joining me today!