Simple Christmas - Marks Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2

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Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich's Company's 

October Blog Hop!

This Month's New Stamp Set Releases

Christmas Selections - Featured October 23

Poinsettia Blooms - Featured October 24 (That's today!)

Cracked Hello - Featured October 25

On the Fly - Featured October 26

Please hop along with us!  You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets!  Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day.  The names are drawn randomly.)  All four winners will be announced on October 27, 2012 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog.  You can go back and comment if you missed a day.  (HINT:  The more you comment the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!)  The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday October 26, 2012.

  

Such a pretty set!  I love that big poinsettia so that is the stamp I started with.  I decided to go with another clean and simple design to let the image stand for itself.  Here is my card:

I decided to build up the image to turn it into a large embellishment, so I started by stamping the flower three times with red pigment ink, then embossed with clear powder.  I trimmed each image out, making sure each level of the flower was slightly smaller.  The cut out pieces were layered with foam tape.  I chose card stock to coordinate, trimmed it down and decided to dry emboss the background with my Cuttlebug.

Once the sentiment was stamped, trimmed and matted, I matted the embossed piece with kraft and added ribbon.  Once the panel was adhered to the card base, then I added a big bow.  The flower and the sentiment was adhered with more foam squares.

The center of the card was decorated with a smaller panel consisting of a heat embossed piece matted with kraft.  

This image is so great because you can use it on a simple card like the one above, or it would work on an elaborately decorated card.  The entire set is great for all kinds of Christmas projects and I love sets that have a bunch of sentiments to choose from!

Don't forget to hop along with us as the projects the rest of the DT have created are lovely as always. There is more inspiration to be had back at the main blog also, and why not check out the Mark's Finest Papers store while you're at it, in addition to this lovely set they have a ton of supplies for all of your holiday card making!

 I used the following supplies to make my card:

Card Stock:  Gina K Designs Pure Ivory, Neenah Desert Storm, Stampin' Up!  Very Vanilla.

Stamps:  Marks Finest Papers Poinsetta Blooms

Ink: American Crafts Red Pigment Ink, Martha Stewart Embossing Powder Clear Gloss.

Embellishments:  Red grossgrain ribbon from stash, Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star.

Adhesive:  Scotch ATG, foam squares.

Tools:  Paper trimmer, bone folder, scissors, Martha Stewart Score Board, Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Paperlace II embossing folder set


I would like to enter into the following challenges:

1. Charisma Cardz - Clean and Simple
2. Christmas Card Challenges - Bows
3. Pile it On - Any Holiday