Okay, so as well as losing a day last week, I now seem to have lost a complete week! I've just realised that I should have had this ready for yesterday.This fortnights challenge is set by Carol, who has chosen Christmas Flowers for us. To visit all the other ladies, there is a Christmas Card Club link in my side bar. My goto for Christmas Flowers is usually a Poinsettia die, and as I had a bunch of Tim Holtz MM die cuts on my desk, I've sort of cheated a bit and recreated a card I made for last Christmas.
This one is made on a 6" square card base, and after cutting out the MM die (Mixed Media Dies #1) from another sheet of white card, and trimming to size I backed it with some cream paper with gold marbling on. I bought this years ago at the NEC Hobbycrafts, came in huge A1 sheets, in a variety of colours. You could also just stamp some plain paper and use underneath. One thing I learned doing this - stamp and heat emboss your sentiment first, the heat gun tends to lift the DST on the back!
The sentiment is by Phill Martin, from a set called Snowflake sentiments,and the Poinsettia is a die by La Crea, and is smaller than the Spellbinders one. It was cut from another past NEC purchase, a deep red leather effect paper, which makes a glorious flower. Centre was filled with Glossy Accents and seed beads. A small flourish added under the flower. The snowflake, added top left, is from a Sue Wilson set, and hides a dent in the cardstock from the MM die, 😀.
This technique of backing the MM die cuts with patterned paper is being done to death I'm afraid, as I said, I have a whole pile on my desk I'm turning into an assortment of cards. But it lends itself so well to pretty much any reason for a card, you can change the mood/occasion just by the colour/style of paper you back it with. Especially good for those difficult Sympathy/ Condolence cards, as it's simple but elegant.
