PTI September Blog Hop

Note: this is my second post for the day. 

To see my September release post for Fresh Squeezed Stamps, please scroll down.

It's the 25th, which means it's time for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.

This month's challenge is wreaths.

I decided to make a card and a layout for the challenge.

First up, my card. I used my Wreath for All Seasons stamp set. 

I stamped the branch stamp in Versamark and then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. Then I stamped the berries and heat embossed them with red embossing powder. 

I diecut a double-ended banner die from pure poppy cardstock and heat embossed my sentiment in gold. 

I layered the patterned paper panel over some gold shimmer card stock.

I'm also linking this card up to the Moxie Fab World All That Glitters is Gold Challenge
and Simon Says Stamp's Anything Goes Challenge.

When I'd first seen the challenge, I'd been toying with the idea of creating a layout using the theme. 

Here's what I came up with.

Can you guess what I used to make the wreath?

It's the Might Oak cover plate-- the tree trunk. I diecut 10 of them from some dark woodgrain Echo Park patterned paper and layered them on my Teresa Collins patterned paper. 

Here's a close up.

I added some leaves that got diecut along with the tree trunk... I just flipped them over first. 

Then I added a few groups of buttons.

For my title, I stamped my sentiment from Counting My Blessings.

I diecut the "grateful" from aqua mist cardstock. 

Then I stamped it with a WMS feather stamp and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Around my photo, I added some more feathers, which I stamped first with versamark and then heat embossed with clear (aqua mist) and white (rustic white) embossing powder. 

A few large buttons finish it off.

Thanks for looking!