Hello and welcome to this week’s 52 Christmas Card Throwdown colour challenge card. When you limit your colour palette, I find you have to get creative to bring interest and contrast to your project. For my card, I used real red, early espresso and crumbcake cardstock by Stampin Up and teamed this with 3 different background papers by Spellbinders in shades of brown.
I embossed a piece of early espresso card using the tile mosaic 3D embossing folder by Spellbinders and adhered this to the front of a 5.5″ x 4.25″ base card. I chose 3 different patterns from the Spellbinders paperpad and adhered these to a piece of white card to add a little stability, stamped the sentiment in early espresso ink using my Misti to line up, and adhered this to the card.
For the diecut poinsettias and sprigs, I added shading with the same coloured inks as the card, giving a soft and subtle shading. I added red stickles to the berries for sparkle. Once dry, I arranged the die cuts on the card and added a sprinkling of red sequins.
I love how this card turned out. The poinsettias were a little fiddly to put together but I like how they look once done, so really worth the effort.
I hope you’ve been inspired to join us at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week – we’d love to see what you make.
Enjoy your weekend
Lily-by-Gilly 
wow Gill, comme toujours tu sais mettre de l’élégance dans chaque thème! elle est superbe, biz
A wonderful card highlighting the colours from the challenge. Love how you pulled everything together.