Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Poinsettia Time!

Recently, I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate from Patti J.'s blog, called Cherish Each Precious Day. Thanks again, Patti! I chose my certificate from Heartfelt Creations, and was able to choose some very lovely things! This card is created using a couple of them.

To begin, I stamped the HFC Open Poinsettia stamp 1461D, onto Basic Grey Fruitcake paper 2x with VersaMark and embossed with gold detail ep. I cut both out and layered, but removed some of the petals for my top layer. I added Crystal Effects to the center and used Dewdrops as accents. I outlined all of my petals inside the gold embossing using a Copic marker #R39.

My card base is Pure Luxury Soft Sand card stock with a layer of the reverse side of my BG Fruitcaker paper. The paper has distressed edges but I added a wee bit more with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I stamped my leaves which are from the HFC set called Leafy Swirls PreCut HCPC 2254. I again embossed with gold detail and colored my leaves with Copic colors # G00 and BG10. As I use to scrapbook quite a bit, most of my older Basic Grey is in 12x12 size and the collections included adhesive letters that have been neglected. I decided to use them to form my sentiment, in the hope of using them up.
My poinsettia was mounted to the front, and I decorated the inside, leaving that sentiment to be determined later. Hope you like! Happy Hump Day!

8 comments:

Colleen said...

Mary Anne,
This is drop dead amaze-lying gorgeous! Those HFC stamps really do make the hands sing. I love, love the fact that you chose to use those letters. I was going to ask where you got the big word stamps. Now I know.

Jennie said...

thud...WOWZERS Mary Anne, you make these stamps pop!! Congrats to winning the GC and beautiful design. Love those flowers layered like this :o)

The Other Patti Sue said...

I like a lot! That poinsettia is amazing! Beautiful card my friend!

craftieodmae said...

GF you did an amazing job with those stamps!!!!! Aren't they fun to work with, I love the ponisettia you created, it's beautiful!!!

Carol L said...

Are you kidding me? I definitely LIKE!!! This is gorgeous!! I love the poinsettia, but the leaves you stamped are phenomenal!! I love all the gold edging! This is a real beauty here my friend!

Kerrie said...

Gorgeous card, love the poinsettia. the name of the dp fruit cake, just cracks me up, where do they get these names from (LOL)

Cheri said...

Mary Anne, you've created another work of art. I absolutely love this card. WTG!!!! And congrats on the win! It paid off really well.

Payne Holler Cards said...

just a knockout!!!! wow you come up with beauties!! love this and lovin that dp!!!
"fruitcake" heeeeheeeeheeeee I agree with Kerrie(-:
hugs GF