Welcome to my little crafting place!
I've just come back from a couple of weeks in Greece, staying in a villa overlooking the stunning Navarino Bay. It was still hot and sunny over there with temperatures around 29 degrees, so its been a bit of a shock to the system finding that here in the UK its only 14 degrees, and wet!
view from villa overlooking Navarino Bay

Anyway, just before I went away and enjoyed that sunny, warm interlude thoughts were already turning to even chillier times as I'd been busy creating for the September Spellbinders releases
I've already blogged some cards made with lovely Autumnal wax seals but I also had some Christmas 'toys' to play with...
I'd made some of my projects but forgot to add them to draft blog posts to write up while I was away. How weird would that be to be sitting sunning myself by the pool while writing up Christmas projects?

But, better late than never, and here are a couple of cards using
BP-214 Essential Tag Accessories
S4-1376 Nested Tree Frame
Both from The Essential Holiday collection by Lisa Horton

These collections were released on Sept 10th and you can find them in the store now

Card 1

I used the Better Press Tag Accessories set for the centrepiece of the blue card.

When I heard that you can use the Glimmer machine and foils with BetterPress plates I was thrilled as the plates are so beautiful! The picture below shows what you get in this gorgeous set of press plates and dies

I used the HO HO HO and one of the gorgeous ornate corner plates for this, and then layered them using dies from the Nested Tree Die set

Items used

etterPress Essential Tag Accessories

Nested Tree Frame Die set

Layering Snowflakes Etched Dies

Card 2

I decided on a classic red white and gold theme for this card - the layers and the trees are all in the die set and the sentiment comes from the BetterPress set shown above.

Here's a picture of the Nested Tree set contents