Not-so-lone-pine

The main stamp I've used for these two cards is a very, very old one that I bought in my early days of stamping so it's well over 20 years old. it was made by PSX and the sate on it is 1993 although I think I got it a couple of years after that. That's the joy of red rubber and wood isn't it?  The stamps may take up a lot of space, and are no use in a platform, but given a little TLC they will last forever.

My first card uses the main image stamped repeatedly down the sides of a fold-back card in dark green, with smaller cones and foliage stamped in between to fill in the border, then the cones lightly coloured with pencils. The topper is made with a combination of word stamps and little sprays of pine in the corners.

I am sharing this card with Little Red Wagon - Don't Be Shy 

For my second card, I stamped and embossed the image in white on a kraft card blank. I die cut a circle the size of the image from another piece of kraft then embossed it using a Swiss dots embossing folder, then continued the dotty theme out to the edge of the card with spotty washi tape. That isn't a bit of ultra clever colour matching, to get the kraft coloured dots on the tape - sneakily, the dots are transparent so the colour shows through from behind. I added a stamped sentiment  and the whole thing looked a bit drab so I had a rummage through my stash and found this pretty green glittery swirl that was sent to me in a RAK many years ago.  I think that little pop of glitz is just what the doctor ordered.

I'm crossing my fingers ever so tightly that kraft counts as a neutral over at Make My Monday so that I can join in the Red, Green and White challenge.

And now, the two cards together, because of course the inspiration behind them came from Twofers where this month the theme is Holiday Greenery  and the twist is that both cards can be for the same occasion.

I am sharing the pair of cards at

Twofer Card Challenge - Holiday greenery 


Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions