Christmas Kickstart #97 - Positively Poinsettias

Jo asked me to be her elf at Christmas Kickstart for April.  I can't tell you how excited I was to get that invitation.  I also got to pick the theme for this month's challenge and this is it.

I don't know about you but I have a number of poinsettia stamps and dies so I thought it would be good to let you use yours to get a kickstart on your Christmas cards.  Here's mine.

This is a BetterPress plate from Spellbinders called Festive Poinsettias. It works beautifully as a hot foil plate that covers the background so you can use the available stencils to color in the image.  The sentiment is from  Pinkfresh Studio's Basic Banners, heat embossed in silver.  I really had to search for a place to take the photo since the foil background wanted to reflect a range of different colors.  It worked best standing up.  

Now it's your turn to make a card featuring poinsettias.  Please be sure to read the challenge guidelines on the blog.  I'll be back on the 15th with another card to inspire you.  I'd love to see your card in the gallery. 

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Can You Handle the Pressure? March 25 and NBUS #72

I had a card front with a chartreuse embossed panel along the side in my Bits box for quite a while and when I saw the challenge at Can You Handle the Pressure? asking for your favorite color, I knew I had to finish it.

The embossing folder is Crystal Wall from Altenew in PTI Green Parrot.  There are so many shades of what some call Lime Green and while I love them all, my favorite is a color from Benjamin Moore called Wales Green.  My bedside dressers at the lake are painted with it and so were the walls of my former bedroom.  Is that an obsession?  But I digress.  Back to the card.  The flower is a new one to me from Penny Black called Love Blooms.  There are three different flower stems in the set.  This one was painted with Twisted Citron and Abandoned Coral DIs.  The sentiment is from PB.  

The new flower is making its way to NBUS and it's also the first time I've used the sentiment. 

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Cardz 4 Guys #368

This is a fun one.  Cardz 4 Guys theme is "S is for . . ."  What would you make? I think S is for sneakers.

I recently picked up some paper that looked like leather and used it with MFT's All Star High Top die.  Scraps of brown were used for the sole and eyelets and some brown twine acts as laces.  The background is patterned paper I've had in my stash and the sentiment was computer generated.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Get those sneakers out and go for a walk.

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Freshly Made Sketches #679 and NBUS #72

Today's card is for Karren's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  

I was looking for a flower to put in the middle of my 'banner' when I saw this Sweet Violet from Altenew that I totally forgot about.  It must be one of their older Craft-a-Flower sets because it doesn't have the keyhole system.  Probably why it was on sale at a good price.  I picked four purples from my scraps, darkening one with Villainous Poison Distress Ink, and two greens.  The banner is from Spellbinders Modern Ovals, embossed with SU's Tasteful Textiles and the background is Altenew's Chain Link Fence.  I was amazed at the dimension I got with that folder.  I forgot to add the Pinkfresh sentiment before I embossed the banner but it worked to stamp it on afterwards.  

Both the embossing folder and violet dies are never before used stuff so I'm also sending my card to Darnell's NBUS. 

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