One layer poinsettia on kraft

Hello, crafting friends!

Looking out at all the birds and flowers in the garden and feeling the beginnings of warmth while walking with Eva makes it hard to think of Christmas but that's what I'm doing today!

I found some weird sized kraft envelopes - I've no idea where they came from! - so I cut this card base slightly smaller than usual. The edges were masked off with sticky notes and I stamped the poinsettia (a retired one from Uniko) over one corner. This was coloured with coloured pencils and the centre highlighted with a Posca white paint pen. The background was sponged lightly with white craft ink, working in from the edges. I dried this with a heat tool before removing the mask. After sweeping the area with an embossing buddy, I stamped a sentiment from WPlus9's Be Merry with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

For some reason, I found it so hard to get decent photos of this card - this is the best I could come up with!

EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD

This card was showcased at Jingle Belles :)

CHALLENGES

The CAS Christmas card challenge is celebrating three years of fabulous inspiration and Loll has chosen a Kraft, Red and White colour challenge so I'm linking up there. I'm also linking up with Merry Little Christmas where Anything Goes and Jingle Belles where the theme is Festive Foliage - and poinsettias are technically leaves as Stephanie kindly pointed out!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Christmas is LITERALLY just a few months away! 

Well okay, nine months away - but it will creep up before you know it.

This is an example of the kind of exaggeration that amuses my family. But it galvanises me into action and now I have another Christmas card ready to be written. In fact, I might make another one while I'm in the mood... watch this space!

Sending hugs,