HEY FRIENDS! It’s time to get started on holiday cards so I have a full project for you today featuring the Poinsettia and Present stamp sets by Penny Black. Both sets have coordinating dies which makes cutting out the images much easier. I decided to use slightly non-traditional colors, although I’m seeing teal and red/pink more often. I love this combination since it’s not quite as contrasting as the usual red and green combination.

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Today’s Project – Poinsettia

Featured Supplies

• Poinsettia by Penny Black [ SBC | SSS ]
• Poinsettia Die by Penny Black [ SBC | SSS ]
• Present by Penny Black [ SBC | SSS ]
• Present Die by Penny Black [ SBC | SSS ]
• Music Background by Penny Black [ SBC | SSS ]
• Curvature by Penny Black [ SBC | SSS ]

There’s a little bit of everything in this card — stamping, embossing, die cuts, Copic coloring — you name it! I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to 4″ x 5.25″ and placed a piece of Mint Low Tack Tape so that I could ink blend the left side of the panel with Distress Ink in Salvaged Patina. Afterwards, I lined up the plaid background from the Poinsettia set and stamped the image using Distress Archival Ink in Salvaged Patina to create a tone on tone look. Next I trimmed a piece of white cardstock with the Curvature die. I used the sides of the die cut to create a border along the masked edge to hide the line (see photo). Next, I used some of the foliage stamps from Poinsettia to stamp the edge as shown using Versafine Ink. I heat set the images with clear embossing powder.

For the right side of the panel, I randomly stamped the background using the Music Background stamp and Memento Ink in Toffee Crunch. Next, I die cut the present and poinsettia from Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Cardstock. Then I stamped the images with Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black and colored them with Copic markers (see list below).

I stamped some of the foliage directly onto the Present die cut using Distress Archival Inks in Vintage Photo, Evergreen Bough, and Peeled Paint. Once the ink was dry, I assembled the parts as shown.

That’s all for today!

Supplies

COPICS: R12, BG11, BG15, BG23 (ribbon); R20, R22, R24 (flower petals row 1); R24, R27, R29 (flower petals row 2); R22, R24 (flower petals row 3); Y35, YR04, YR09 (flower center)

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