Christmas Card Club - Cards 5/2019 - Poinsettia

Hello Everyone,

It's another Christmas Card Club Sunday and Valery (Mrs A) chose today's theme - Poinsettias ...

... which means I get to use one of my all-time favourite stamp sets from Penny Black.

Supplies used:

- a white 5" square card base, ready made from Docrafts Papermania, used in the tent style orientation, the front of which is randomly stamped using a tiny poinsettia stamp from a Cardmaking & Papercraft Fairy Stamp set (2010) and Memento Dew Drop Rhubarb Stalk ink pad. I found the set buried under a ton of other stamps totally forgotten - the fairies would have been so useful for CCC week 3. 

- white card for the topper. The poinsettia, from Penny Black's Wonder Collection, was stamped on to the card twice and coloured with ProMarkers in shades of red, green and yellow. I then fussy cut one of the flowers and used a circle punch to cut out the other. I then layered the flowers together using a dimensional foam square and added yellow Stickles to the centre for a bit of bling. 

- die from a pretty doily nest set, M& C Boutique from The Works, and green glitter card from a Mixed Media pad - Dear Lizzy New Day collection from American Crafts. Note: I cut this on my Cuttlebug making up the sandwich as instructed, passing it through the machine twice. This wasn't entirely successful so I think I should have added a sheet of cardstock to my sandwich to increase the pressure. Glitter card is notoriously difficult to cut cleanly. 

- the topper was then put together with Tacky Glue - ordinary glue tape doesn't work well, actually it didn't work at all, with glitter card - and then adhered the topper to the front of the card base with dimensional foam squares. 

- the greeting die, also from the PB set, was stamped in Rhubarb Stalk on to a scrap of white card. I used an oval punch to cut out the greeting. To create the mat for the greeting the green glitter was punched out with the same oval punch - this was then cut in half and adhered to the back of the greeting leaving an edge showing at either side. I'm not sure I've explained that well so here's a close up and hopefully all will be clear.

- the card was finished of with green neon gem embellishments - they went so well with the glitter card that I had to use them - especially as the pack has been in my stash forever!

Looking forward to catching up with what how the others have interpreted today's theme. Check out the links on the right sidebar to see for yourself too.

Thanks for popping in and have a great crafty week ahead.