Pretty Poinsettia - hope it's Merry

It's time for the 11th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

Day 30 - Do What You Love

I love making and giving Christmas. I love trying to make multiple cards with

little differences, so that they are still one-of-a-kind ... maybe two-of-a-kind.

Earlier today I made THIS pretty pair of Poinsettia cards using a delicate cut

file and the "Merry & bright" digital sentiment from Beccy’s Place.

My latest cards use the same poinsettia cut file (details & link below)

but a different sentiment.  

The "hope it's Merry" digital sentiment from the Sing Joy digital stamp set by Beccy’s Place fits perfectly against the curve of the petals.  As with the earlier cards, I sized the poinsettia to fit on a 4 3/8" square panel, added the "hope it's Merry" digital sentiment and printed two panels on white textured cardstock then cut the poinsettia design from the panels using my Silhouette Cameo.  The panels were adhered to vibrant red textured cardstock then trimmed to a 1/8" border with a Perfect Layers Ruler.  I made the 5 1/2" card bases from 300gsm smooth white cardstock and matted the front with white textured cardstock.  I adhered the matted poinsettia panels to the matted card bases and soon had another pair of same-but-different modern merry poinsettia Christmas cards.

It's almost optical illusion with this design.  It looks like there are different shades of

red in the poinsettia but I assure it, it's a single layer of crimson red cardstock.

   

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INGREDIENTS

"hope it's Merry" digital sentiment from the

Sing Joy digital stamp set by Beccy’s Place

Unfortunately this digital stamp set is no longer available but you can

view projects created with it on the Beccy's Place blog HERE

textured cardstock - to print & mat the image panel

Poinsettia cut file by Nic Squirrell

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #307557

scoreboard & bone folder - to form the card bases

Perfect Layers Ruler - to trim matting layer

Helmar 450 Quick Dry - liquid adhesive to adhere layers

Tombow Mono Multi Adhesive - to adhere around delicate poinsettia veins

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I have entered my cards in the

11th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place