Day 30 - Doing what I love with dimension

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 30 - Do What You Love

Beccy's inspiration is a set of four STUNNING cards HERE,

she has coloured a single poinsettia image in shades of grey then cut it into four

- WOW - they're breathtakingly beautiful!

My list for "Do What You Love" is endless, because I love making anything

and everything papercraft, from cards to treat boxes and decor pieces. 

This time my love is for dimension, lots of inky dimension.

To make these cards, I opened the Christmas To Remember Poinsettia Card cut file (details & links below, available from two stores) in Silhouette Studio and enlarged the card.  One of my favourite sizes is 5” x 7” and this card was A2, which is a much smaller 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.  The best I could do was to lock the aspect of the grouped elements of the card and enlarge it to be 6 ¾” wide x 5” tall, almost 5" x 7" and it will fit nicely in a 5” x 7” envelope.  I changed the sentiment for this card and used one of my favourites from Beccy’s Place, the Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment from the Christmas Blooms digital stamp set.  I printed the sentiment panels then cut all the pieces in Vintage shades of textured cardstock (details below).  I inked the flowers, foliage and sentiment panels with Distress Inks, curled the petals and leaves then assembled the layers.  I used 300gsm smooth white cardstock to make card bases then adhered the assembled layers on top.

   

   

   

After the sticky situation I had earlier today, I didn't think I would be using foam dots again for a very long time but the dimension of the poinsettia was calling for a dimensional sentiment, so I popped foam dots between each sentiment layer.

   

Here they are together, same but a little bit different.

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INGREDIENTS

The Christmas To Remember Poinsettia Card cut file can be purchased from either

My Scrap Chick or Silhouette Design Store

Christmas To Remember Card – My Scrap Chick

OR
Christmas To Remember Poinsettia Card – Silhouette Design Store

– Design ID #369966

Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment - Christmas Blooms digital stamp set

– Beccy’s Place

textured cardstock - Straw-Brown Sugar-Leaf-Spinach-Pomegranate

Distress Inks:

- Scattered Straw on Straw cardstock

- Tattered Rose on Brown Sugar cardstock

- Shabby Shutters on Leaf cardstock

- Bundled Sage on Leaf cardstock

- Fired Brick on Pomegranate cardstock

foam dots - to pop the sentiment layers

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card bases

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere small pieces 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the larger pieces

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I have entered my cards in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges