Even though at the moment my life outside the craft room can be only described as 'madly chaotic' - (nothing sinister - more of that will be shared in due course!) - I yesterday found time to continue with my quest to participate in every month's challenge at CAS Christmas.
The challenge this month is 'Poinsettia'.
Cut the petals twice then watercoloured one green and one red then layered them - VERY fiddly to do but was happy with the result!.
I fiddled and faffed about for ages in deciding on a background and then just did a little watercolouring with no rhyme or reason!
It didn't look too bad and I added a little bit of stamping with a small berry stamp from an old Choc Baroque set to give it some interest.
The 'Joy' sentiment is from SU.
Sharing over at
Shopping Our Stash - Christmas in July
Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas in July
Addicted 2 CAS - Christmas
Thank you for looking and for leaving any comments, I really appreciate it. x
24 comments:
This background is so soft and beautiful Viv and the beautiful die cut poinsettia with the bright red and green layered bracts look great and finished with some pretty gold dimensional pearls and framed perfectly in the circle aperture. x
Gorgeous poinsettia!
Thanks for celebrating Christmas in July with the crew from SHOPPING OUR STASH!
Great idea to die cut the poinsettia twice for layering and depth. Gorgeous watercolor background, it does bring that special something to this design.
Beautiful design and really love the die-cut poinsettia and the watercoloured background
Carol x
so pretty Viv, love your soft background for the gorgeous poinsettia. thanks for joining us at CAS Christmas :)
Just catching up after a week way...beautiful Christmas card Viv...love your soft background.
Anne
I love how you've cut this poinsettia twice to make layers, Viv! It looks like it's growing wild with the background. So pretty, my friend!
Love this card and the poinsettia die is one of the nicest I've seen. It stands out beautifully against your subtle background
I know all about fiddling and faffing about! I think your background is perfect and that pointsettia die is just stunning, very clever to layer it with green as it gives a lovely depth to the image. the little gold spots are a brilliant finishing touch xx
A gorgeous CAS card.xxx
I love the BG you created for this... Such a lovely card!
CAS perfection Viv, and it really does look like the Poinsettia is growing in the wild...maybe even a wild and windswept beach setting?! Love, LOVE the layered look to your beautifully water colored Poinsettia too! Lovely, lovely card Viv!! Hugs, Marcia :0)
Lovely soft background to showcase your pretty poinsettia growing in the wild. Beautiful card. Thanks for joining us at CAS Christmas.
What a fabulous poinsettia card. Great choice of background and the little touch of foreground stamping is perfect to show off your die cut flower. Lovely.
Hugs, Sarnie x
Beautiful,I love the soft background with the gorgeous flowers.
Katrina
Beautiful card Viv! LOVE how you've layered that poinsettia die. (You'll see were were on the same wavelength on the 15th reminder post!). :) Your watercoloured background is perfect! Love the soft colours. xx
Love this Viv! what great layering of colors on your poinsettia - I have a similar die but have used it as a daisy (!?) bet I could copy your design with it! A beautiful background with the stampings and watercoloring! Love this
WOW this is stunning Viv. The poinsettia looks fabulous and I love how you did the delicate water colouring in the background x. CAS perfection x.
So pretty Viv - loving that soft, ethereal watercolour background. It sets off the bright poinsettia perfectly!
Gorgeous clean and simple card. I'm liking your layered poinsettia - great idea. Your watercolored background is lovely and provides a great backdrop for your lovely poinsettia. Thanks for joining us at Addicted to CAS.
sue n.
love the soft watercolor background and that poinsettia die is so pretty and unusual. So glad you shared this with us at ATCAS this week
Jaydee
Hi Viv this is one beautiful CAS style festive creation I love how you have done the background and the flower looks amazing, thank you for joining our challenge at DRAGONFLY DREAMS this month
hugs
lorraine x
I love the simplicity of this card. It lets the poinsettia take the center stage and look gorgeous.
A wonderfully elegant and classy Christmas card! Love it! Hang in there! It will fly by in a blur xxxx
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