As I'd hoped, I did manage to make another Christmas card on the weekend... it just took me until today to get it photographed. ;) Amazingly, most of the challenges I'd hoped to enter are still open! Here's my card:
I love this big poinsettia image from Altenew, and I think it looks amazing embossed with gold tinsel embossing powder. I used watercolour powder to colour it, giving it effortless variations in red hues. It's not even that much of a chore to fussy cut it. For the white panel, I embossed the sentiment and splattered some gold glitter paint. I'm not totally pleased with the gold Nuvo drops I added to the centre of the poinsettia, but it didn't totally wreck the flower, either, so I'll live with it.
I made this with two challenges in mind: The Flower Challenge is looking for summer or winter flowers; and Shopping Our Stash is featuring Christmas/Hanukkah in July.
Supplies: Neenah white & American Crafts textured white cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, Altenew Modern poinsettia stamps, Versamark & Altenew velvet inks, Wow clear & gold glitter embossing powder, Magenta Nuance red watercolour powder, Tattered Angels golden goddess glitter paint, Nuvo bright gold glitter drops, Creative Memories corner-rounding punch
Stunning I love the gold detail
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Mrs H's Crafty Corner
Beautiful poinettia and the watercolouring is awesome, love the gold spatters, and the center of the flower is fine. Guess I can add Thanks for playing along with us at Shopping our Stash for Christmas in July
ReplyDeleteGorgeous poinsettia, dressed in the various hues of red! And paired with gold...oh my! Swooning!
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Really beautiful, Lindsey. Love the red with the gold embossing, and water coloring is a great idea, as you do get so much natural color variations. And, splatters!! You are so very brave!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness....this is over the top beautiful! I love your gorgeous poinsettia (I recognize that beautiful stamp).
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLook at you go with these Christmas cards!
ReplyDeleteRockin it all over town!
This one is just gorgeous!
Thanks for celebrating Christmas in July (again) with the crew from SHOPPING OUR STASH!!
oh wow, this is glorious--so incredibly elegant! that tinsel gold e/p is sparkly perfection! thanks for SHOPPING YOUR (xmas in july!) STASH with us this fortnight! ♥
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful card Lindsey, thanks for sharing with us over at 'The Flower Challenge' :) Viv DT xx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Lindsey, perfect winter card. Thank you so much for joining us at The Flower Challenge and we hope to see you there again soon. Aileen DesignTeam
ReplyDeletePoinsettias are my fave and such a classic pairing of red and gold. Just a stunner of a card dear.
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