my first Christmas card
.. which is really a practice run on the idea. Hello everyone - how is your weekend going? A couple of days ago I decided it was time to try out one of my ideas for the Christmas cards I will be making. In this recent tidy up I saw a Christmas stamp I hadn't used - it was part of a set & I had used some of the set but not the main image. Here is the card; I can't remember who the stamp is by - but it consists of the wording with a poinsettia set in the middle. So I stamped & embossed it in gold on white card, then stamped a second poinsettia. One of my new sets of frame dies was just the right size - it did pinch off a little of the lower petal of the flower, but when I layered the second flower on top that laid above the frame so it didn't matter. The next size up frame die I used for the gold card. I layered the gold card onto the base card, then the white card onto the gold card then the second flower. I had cut out a couple of...