Poinsettia cards

Hello there, we had some fabulous glimmer and shimmery cards last week for our last Choose Two challenge of the year. A big thanks to all those who played along with us! This week our winner is Carolyn King with this classic Christmas beauty. Here is what some of the design team had to say... Stunning, soft and classic. Beautifully executed card with such finesse! Stunningly simple but oh so classy. Congratulations! Here is your badge to wear on your blog. Honourable Mentions this week go to…

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I decided to heat emboss the details on this Christmas card created using the Poinsettia Petals Stamp Set and coordinating Poinsettia Dies.

This is for FS657 and Rebecca aka rlsnyder is our featured artist this week. Congratulations, Rebecca! I had a great time browsing through your gallery. You had so many wonderful floral cards I had a hard time picking just one to case. I finally settled on your [url=https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2931608?&cat=500&ppuser=154272]Stamping On Vellum[/url] card. I kept the vellum poinsettia theme with stamping on it. I used a large spatter background stamp on the vellum…

Good Morning! I am a little late posting today as I had a lovely lovely lie in (yippee!). Before I share todays make with you I wanted to give a little shout out to the lovely Gloria, one of my fab retreat attendees who has recently had an operation! Gloria I hope you will be back to your usual self very soon and hope you are being pampered? xxx Today I am sharing a card we make at Tuesday Club a couple of weeks ago using the Reason for the Season stamp set along with the Festive Flower…

There’s a NEW top lift fun fold card I designed and I can’t wait to show you how to make this greeting card. Beautiful Christmas card to make

Stampin' Up!'s Poinsettia Petals stamp set and Poinsettia Dies have SO much texture! I made a white poinsettia for today's CCM Saturday Blog Hop.

I am continuing on with my Christmas cards. Today I worked with the Poinsettia Petals Bundle and Gold Foil and I am really pleased with the result. This one is just a little more work but so worth it. The card base is Very Vanilla cut to 5 ½ x 8 ½” and scored at 4 ¼”. The next layer is cut from Cherry Cobbler cardstock (one of my favorites for Christmas cards) which is cut to to 5 ¼ x 4”. I used one of the stamps from the bundle along with VersaMark Ink and Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder which…