Christmas Poinsettia

Hello CottageCutz friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Friday edition of the Blog.

We have a 4th of July sale going on right now in the online store. It runs through today (Friday) at 9:00 pm (PDT) with savings of up to 70%. There are so many great dies on sale right now. 

My card for today is showing one of the Christmas dies from last year's collection. It is currently on sale at 30% off. The die is the Poinsettia Floral. 

For my card I used the colors from this week's color challenge #955 on Splitcoaststampers. It is also a Christmas in July theme. The colors we were to use are poppy parade, petal pink and soft succulent. 

petal pink, poppy parade and soft succulent

I don't have petal pink cardstock, so I used powder pink for my poinsettia. Since there are no veins in this die, I added them with powder pink ink and a brush and for the top layer I used a R20 Copic marker. The top layer idea came from my teamie Kristine. 

The leaves are cut in soft succulent cardstock and then shaded with the same ink for a deeper hue. After I finished this card, I found some soft succulent glimmer paper, so I cut the holly leaves in that paper for a little shine. I decided not to remove the other piece of cardstock but kept it for a darker border.

Stamped my Merry Christmas sentiment in poppy parade. To complete my card I added a few poppy parade enamel dots and the card base is also poppy parade cardstock. My card is a bit larger than I usually make - it measures 5" x 6". 

Well, that's it for me for this post. I will be back tomorrow with a card from our new Folk Art collection.