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

 

Festive Poinsettias BetterPress and… [ SPL | SBC | SSS ] Festive Poinsettias Press Plate from… [ SPL | SSS ] Christmas Die & Glimmer Sentiments… [ SPL | SSS ] Yana’s Amaryllis Etched Dies from the… [ SPL | SBC | SSS ] Amaryllis Garden 3D Embossing Folder… [ SPL | SBC | SSS ] Emerald Cut Labels and Tag Etched… [ SPL | SSS ] BetterPress Letterpress System |… [ SPL | SBC ] Basic BetterPress Gift Set -… [ SPL ] Spellbinders – Black Platinum 6 Die… [ SBC ] Glimmer Hot Foil System Platinum |… [ SPL | SBC | SSS ] Art Impressions Watercolor Bonnies… [ SBC | BLIC ] Water Brush Set – 3 Pack |… [ SPL | SSS | SBC ] Sakura Koi Water Brush – Round, Size… [ BLIC ] Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Black -… [ SPL | SBC ] Glimmer Hot Foil 2 Rolls – Opaque… [ SPL | SBC ] Mirror Gold Cardstock 8 1/2″ x 11 -… [ SPL ] Memory Box BLACK GLOSSY 8.5×11 Paper… [ SSS | STR ] Ranger Embossing Powder Clear EPJ37330 [ SSS | SBC ] 8.5″ x 11″ Watercolor Cardstock – 10… [ SPL | SSS ] Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape… [ STR ] Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ STR | SSS | SBC ]