Happy Holidays

I’ve been slowing chipping away at the number of holiday cards I want to make. I have one to share today with one of my favorite poinsettia stamps from Altenew: “Modern Poinsettia.” I posted another holiday card with the same poinsettia here. 

I stamped the poinsettia on hot press watercolor paper. Although it does not have as much texture as cold press paper, it does require two stampings to get a clear image. Thanks to the MISTI, that’s easy to do. The next step was to watercolor the floral and die cut it with the accompanying die.

After I die cut it, I decided it would benefit from a few black splatters. It’s taken me far too long to finally master the art of splattering, but I’m no longer afraid I’ll ruin the whole thing!

I added a wide strip of black and white patterned paper from My Favorite Things to the left side of the card before adding the poinsettia with dimensional tape. The beautiful greeting is from the Colorado Crafts “Slimline Poinsettia” stamp. I’m using three of those greeting repeatedly this year on my cards.

I’m sending this off to two challenges: Addicted to Stamps and More: Christmas, and Happy Little Stampers Christmas: Anything Goes.

I’m also adding this to a new (to me) site: Falling for the Holidays Blog Hop, sponsored by the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers.