November Card Club - Card #2 - stamped background embellished with red dots and a multilayered pine cone with a bow

 For our second card I worked up this design for the cards.  I stamped several finely patterned green decorative paper with two leaf /branch stamps (Peaceful Wishes -SU) in several colours of green ink.  I cut them to 4" x 5.25" for the backgrounds and matched them up with coordinating cards.  I stamped the pinecone from this set with brown ink on off white cardstock  (1.25" x 2.25")  and clear embossed them.  I provided red cording for the bow which they could stitch on and tie OR tie and add with double sided tape.  Both worked well.  We layered these onto a gold layer and then to a red layer to create our focal elements.  We distressed our edges and added paper piercing as we wished.  Before adhering our background to our card front we established our layout (portrait or landscape) so we could detemine where to stamp our greetings.  The greetings were stamped with Veramark and embossed with gold embossing powder.  With all the pieces ready we added our backgrounds to our card fronts and then mounted our pinecones with 3D foam tape to finish off our cards.  Therese