Lily-by-Gilly

I could not wait to show you my card for this week’s 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge – the colours are my favourites to use for Christmas cards for a lovely, traditional look – which I adore.  I love the texture and the bling I managed to add too – they are so me! 

When I saw the colours in the colour challenge for this week, it made me think of Christmas poinsettia flowers. I’ve treated myself to the Joyful Christmas stamp set, which has a great poinsettia in it, but as I’m still waiting for my order to arrive, I looked through my stamp collection to see what else I could use to make my own poinsettia instead. 

I used one of the bauble images from the Ornaments Keepsakes set to make poinsettia petals, which I then layered and adhered to a punched circle of card … 

Gold sequins made a great centre for the flower, with a few adhesive pearls too. I must admit, I’m a bit addicted to using the gold sequins at the moment – if it stands still long enough, it gets a sequin added!

There are matching framelits for the ornament keepsakes stamp, but this time I decided to cut them out by hand instead using my paper snips – you need a steady hand, but it’s fun to do.   

A matching mat of very vanilla card on the inside of the card allows space for a stamped sentiment, and to add a message.  A strip of cherry cobbler card, embossed with the petals a plenty embossing folder, completed the co-ordinated look.

I added a touch of sponging, in crumb cake ink, to the edges of the very vanilla card layer, which looks lovely in real life and, together with the crochet trim, gives a vintage feel to the card. 

The rest of the Design Team have been creating projects to inspire you, so why not join me and pop on over to see what they’ve been up to? 

• Asha
• Danielle
• Deborah
• Fabiola
• Louise
• Jacqueline
• Mynette
• Patricia
• Ruth

And we’d love to see your own creations, so I do hope you will join in the challenge. 

cardstock: crumb cake, very vanilla, cherry cobbler, early espresso;

stamp sets: more merry messages, ornament keepsakes;

inks: cherry cobbler, garden green, crumb cake;

punches: 1” circle, corner rounder;

accessories: petals a plenty embossing folder, bigshot machine, stampin’ dimensionals, gold sequins, adhesive pearls, crochet trim, paper snips, stamping sponge.

All supplies from Stampin’ Up – contact me for details. 

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