Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge #26

Hello friends.  Anyone else feeling behind on getting their Christmas cards done this year??!!  I usually make them all year long and am pretty much done by this time of year...NOT this year!!  Grrr!!  All to say you might be seeing quite a bit of Christmas for the next couple months!

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge is helping me out today with a FABULOUS mood board to inspire, and I'm loving ALL the wreaths in the photos!!

The wreaths, the greenery, I love it all!!  Other than the red bows, all the colors seemed darker and more traditional, so I chose to work with two of my most favorite colors from SU! this past year...Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen, and a stencil set from PFS called Thrill of Hope Wreath.  Here's what I came up with...

Rather than stenciling my wreath on white like I normally would have done, I stenciled right onto the Soft Succulent cardstock using Gina K's Light Spruce, Medium Spruce, & Dark Spruce inks, and Fired Brick Distress Ink for the berries.

Once I finished stenciling, I ran my piece through a new Spellbinders embossing folder called Scattered Christmas to add dimension and more interest.  I matted my layers with gold mirror cardstock and also Evening Evergreen cardstock.

Had a burst of sunshine come through when I took this photo, so it's a little brighter than the 2 previous photos, but I kept it because it shows off the foiled sentiment better (Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month with Aura foil).  The little gold starbursts and dots are from The Greetery's Twinkle Background Die.  This card is also one of my favorite folds where you score your 11 x 4 1/4 card base at 5 1/2 and 4 1/4 and adhere the 1 1/4" on the inside so the card opens up to a square 4 1/4 x 4 1/4.  Just something a little different than the A2 card fold.

If you're like me and need to get going on those Christmas cards, the Peace On Earth Christmas  Challenge can help you out too!  Lots of BEAUTIFUL inspiration from the DT and this challenge is open till Nov. 3 @ 8:00PM.

Edited to add:  Also adding this card to the new Stencil Fun Challenge...this challenge is an anything goes monthly challenge with the optional twist this month of using Halloween colors.  Obviously, I did NOT use Halloween colors on this Christmas card, but I definitely used the Thrill of Hope stencil from PFS!

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!