Hi everyone! Two cards to share today! So very Christmas-y! Two of the flowers you think of when it’s Christmas….poinsettias and amaryllis.
My first card is the NEW Festive Poinsettias Better Press plate from Spellbinders.
I inked up the plate with black, impressed it and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.
Then I colored it with Tombow Brush Markers! I know! Not my normal but I’ve seen another fabulous cardmaker using her Tombows so I wanted to get mine back out and color. I’m surprised they’re still good…over 20 years old!
The green strip of cardstock is darker/richer than it’s showing in my pictures.
I spattered with white acrylic ink and I used a small paintbrush. All the little white specks are from the spattering. The plate did impress solid black. So we have teeny snowflakes today! lol
I feel like I went back in time…heat embossing and then coloring! Oh, I used watercolor paper because I put a little marker on, then pulled it out with a waterbrush.
I really like it. It’s festive for sure! It’s a more of an A6 size… 4 ½ inches x 6 inches. It’s flat though so USPS should be really happy about that! haha
Here’s my second card using Yana’s Christmas release…
I die cut Yana’s Amaryllis in gold foil cardstock… wow does it shine!
I die cut the solid background in red cardstock and then impressed the outline die in the solid red cut with the tan mat so the detail would show without having to puzzle piece all the petal pieces back in!
I went over the die cut lines with a red copic just to add a little more dimension.
The background on this card is a black glossy die cut using the Emerald Cut Labels and Tag die set.
Then the 3D embossing folder is NEW also. It’s called Amaryllis Garden. So pretty! I embossed it in white cardstock, trimmed it down to 5 x 7 size and used my gray inking brush to go around the edges of the panel.
The sentiments for both of these cards are from the Christmas Die and Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil and Die set. I die cut the words in black glossy cardstock and I used black foil for the sub sentiment.
Linking my cards to some challenges…
Color Hues #98 – Red and Black (2nd card)
Can You Handle The Pressure – anything goes using an embossing folder (2nd card)
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes (1st card)
Die Cut Divas – Any Holiday in the year (2nd card)
Merry Little Christmas #59 – anything Christmas goes (1st card)
I feel like I should apologize for this being so long. I see other gals posting two cards at once but it seems like a longer post when I do it! lol I hope you made it through and got a little inspiration! I CANNOT believe it’s NOVEMBER 1st! EEK! Don’t panic, don’t panic!
It’s cooling off here…the sun was out for a minute. I need to decide if I can hang my plants back out. This time of year is so hard for me. I hate having to take all my ferns down. So sad!
Have a great weekend everyone! Happy cardmaking!
Here’s shopping links for the products I used to make these two cards…. thank you so much for tapping/clicking through…I appreciate it!
SPL = Spellbinders, SBC = Scrapbook .com, SSS = Simon Says Stamp, STR = Starlitstudio
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Beautiful cards! You’ve inspired me to dig out my Tombow markers too and don’t apologize for anything…we love your posts!!
Beatiful!!
Your cards are just GORGEOUS Pam! Beautifully done! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Can You Handle the Pressure challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Can You Handle the Pressure Co-Owner
OMGosh, gorgeous stuff, Pam! I’m totally entranced by your poinsettia card, especially. All that wonderful color on black — wow! It always knocks my socks off. Your coloring with those Tombows rocks, too. I’ve had mine since 2010 and have only ever replaced 2 markers — and you know I’ve used them a lot! Your amaryllis is striking with the gold and black. The sun was shining when I got up this morning, but now the clouds have moved in again. Fall is the season that can’t make up its mind!
Both cards are beautiful.
So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas challenge this month.
I am delighted to see your gorgeous card in our gallery, Pam! Now, I get totally inspired by two cards! Such an added bonus. Your Amaryllis is wonderful against that dark black background and I love all the shine. Card number one is just stunning as well. I think that Spellbinders plate is gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at Color Hues.
Pam, both of your cards are beautiful! The amaryllis is stunning in gold and red set against the black background. The embossing folder is gorgeous, too. Thanks for sharing with us at Color Hues!
Pam, both your cards are beautiful! The amaryllis is stunning in gold and red set against the black background! The embossing folder is also wonderful. Thanks for sharing with us at Color Hues!
Sorry for the double post. WordPress was giving me a hard time this morning!
Such beautiful cards, Pam! I have that poinsettia plate but have yet to put it to use, so you’ve inspired me. I wondered if clear heat embossing the impressed image would work and now I know.
The amaryllis is just stunning against the black background and the whole card livened with the beautiful embossing. Thank you so much for playing along over at Color Hues!
Yana’s amaryllis card is stunning. What a clever idea to emboss the red with the outline die to help with the placement of the gold outline piece. Thanks for joining us at Die Cut Divas.
sue n.