Winter Cardinal Swag Featuring Simon Says Stamp

Welcome back, Friends! Today’s project is featuring the new Classic Cardinal from Simon’s latest release, Joy For You. Not going to lie, this project took me a bit of time, but I feel like it was so worth it! I love the icy sprigs creating the swag! Let’s go ahead and get into the details!

NOTE: all supplies are linked in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

I began the project by die cutting the cardinal pieces first and doing some ink blending on the red using Brick ink. Once that was all assembled, I went to work die cutting all of the pieces for the swag. I used the Arching Spruce Sprig to die cut lots of those from forest, brown, and desert storm cardstock. I also used the Layering Pink Sprigs and cut those from fern and forest cardstock. Before moving on, I did white splatter some of the pieces, but I feel like that got lost in the process of adding the glitter.

The background was created using the Tiny Tufts Embossing Folder, desert storm cardstock and some gold splatter, which was layered atop a black panel. I secured the spruce sprigs in place using liquid glue and tucked in all of the pine sprigs. I then began the tedious task of adding glue to the pieces individually and then adding rock candy. The sentiment was cut three times from black cardstock and those were adhered together for that stacked sentiment.

Once everything was dry, I tucked the cardinal in and secured with foam tape, while the sentiment was glued directly to the panel to finish up.

That does it for this project! I absolutely love creating icy projects, and I know that I probably get carried away, but it’s hard not to! Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you’ll check out the entire Joy For You release! Have yourself an amazing day!

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