Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Golden Poinsettias

I made a few different Christmas cards to send out this year but this is by far my favorite one...  I can honestly say that this took me so long to make that my mom and dad were the only ones to receive it...  My mom is big into crafting and she allows me to enable her with all the wonderful products  I find and since I love them, she does too and ends up getting them too...  So she deserved this card and then some...

I started with shimmer gold cardstock and layered with neenah solar white that I ran though with my snowflake embossing folder.  This was the easy part...  The poinsettias are what took all the time to create...  The 2 smaller poinsettias have 3 layers and the larger one has 4.  I stamped the layers individually and then embossed them.  I used my Spellbinder's poinsettia dies to cut out all the layers.  I then adhered the layers together to create my flowers...  Probably doesn't seem like a lot of work, but the dies had to line up perfectly with the stamped image to look right...  Had quite a few mess ups...  I then stamped and embossed my sentiment and cut out with spellbinders ovals and scallop oval dies.  I added some gold balls and a gold cord to finish off this card...  I love the look of this and I really wish it were easily duplicated because I would have loved to find the time to create more of these to send...  That being said, I like how all of my Christmas cards turned out...  Some of you will see them when they show up in your mailbox and you aren't even expecting one...  ;)  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my card today...  I would love to know what you think... 

6 comments:

Anne Temple said...

This is beautiful and well worth all the time it took.

Brenda said...

Your mom will love it - it's absolutely gorgeous :) Love the gold and white.

April said...

Very lovely! Great job!

Shona Erlenborn said...

Love the gold and white combination. Your Mom will certainly love it!

Donna Ellis said...

Keri, your card is incredible - love the pretty gold CS for the frame. Your choice of elegant gold EP and the fussy cut poinsettias created the classic but stylish look which never fades in producing jaw-dropping swoons! Gorgeous - I've pinned your card to CASE it next year! ((Christmas Hugs))

Julie Z said...

Wow this is stunning Keri! The gold and white poinsettias are gorgeous! I'm sure your mom loved it. SO pretty!