Sunday 3 May 2015

Clearly Besotted and Papertrey Ink Poinsettia Christmas card



Hello everyone, and a special welcome to Suchi of Suchi's CardStock who has joined us as a new follower this week.Suchi is a talented artist who has an art blog as well as her craft blog and she loves making anything card related. She has some tips and tutorials on her blog too, so do have a rummage round when you pop over to say hello.

Over at Christmas Card Challenges this week we have a colour challenge with a holiday palette. You can use all the colours or choose a few to create a card and link it up on our challenge blog. We had some fabulous entries last week so thank you for sharing them with us, and you can see if you were a winner over on the blog.

I chose to use the gold, soft grey and claret colours for my card and I came up with this:-





I used some textured gold card for my background and cut 2 smaller grey panels to go on top, leaving a gap so the gold card could show through. I then die cut and stamped a poinsettia flower from the Clearly Besotted Peaceful Poinsettias stamp set in scarlet jewel ink from Papertrey Ink, and layered it over a leaf die cut. For the centre of the flower, I took some tiny pearls and coloured them with a gold pen and placed them in a circle. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink Think Big Favorites #8 and some sequins from Simon Says Stamps finished it off.

Why not pop over to the Christmas Card Challenge blog to see some inspiration from our Design Team members, then get a bit inky and join us this week.


I'd like to play along with

Fab n Funky - Christmas

Loves Rubber Stamps challenge - use at least 2 die cuts

Big Quick Quotes challenge - add a flower

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x

19 comments:

Sarah said...

Your CAS cards always have such impact Carol and I really love this one!! That is a wonderful sentiment stamp xx

coldwaters2 said...

Oh how beautiful this CAS style card is I love that Poinsettia, thank you for joining our challenge at FAB 'N' FUNKY this week, good luck I hope you will join us again.
hugs
lorraine x

JoAnn said...

Beautiful card Carol. Love the poinsettia and the gold background.

Tenia Nelson said...

So so pretty!!

Nora Noll said...

This is beautiful!! I love the gold peeking out of the back. The color of the poinsettia is so rich and lovely. Stunning card!!

Joyce said...

This is stunning. A fantastic color scheme and lovely design.

Pam said...

Stunning! What a beautiful poinsettia. Love the split panel design.

sallysbitz2 said...

Such an elegant looking Christmas card x

hugs sally x
sallysbitz2.blogspot.co.uk

Shanna Shands said...

Great holiday card. Thanks for playing at Loves Rubberstamps!

Unknown said...

This is GORGEOUS! So very stunning, love the gold popping out!!

Rainey's Craft Room said...

Love the background card peeping through and your poinsettia stamp and die are gorgeous. A great design too.
Lorraine

Marybeth said...

Wow,Carol! This is so striking in purple! Love it!

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

Wow, stunning!! You make me want that sentiment stamp!

Holly AKA KopyKat said...

Oh this is so fabulous. Thanks for playing with us over at Loves Rubberstamps!!!

Anonymous said...

What a gorgeous elegant card, I really love the design, perfect!

Shirley-Anne said...

Not just a CAS card , Carol . This is a stunning CAS card . Beautiful design
hugs Shirley-Anne

Shirley said...

Your card is beautiful!!! I love what your do with simplicity and elegance and hope viewing your cards will have it rub off on me!!! Lovely!

Deepti said...

A stunner! Love the layout and the gold underneath :)

Connie Mercer said...

stunning! Thanks for joining us at Quick Quotes!

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