An Elegant Card

I am really loving this Ever Eden Specialty Designer Series paper from the Eden’s Garden Collection.  Today I wanted to use it with some other stamps and dies I have instead of the ones from the collection just to make it interesting.      

Here is what I came up with…

The card base is Soft Succulent cardstock that is cut 5 ½ x 8 ½”, scored at 4 ¼”.  The first thing I did was to add my sentiment to the bottom right of the card front.  I selected the “Merry Christmas” sentiment from the Poinsettia Petals Stamp set and stamped it on using VersaMark ink.  I added Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat set it with my Heat Tool.

Next, I selected two of the Ever Eden DSP designs that work well together.  I added the first which was cut to 2 x 5 ½” across the card front.  I then cut a piece of Gold Foil that is 1 6/8 x 5 ½” and added that to the center of the previous DSP.  Next, I took the other DSP pattern and cut a piece to 1 ½ x 5 ½” and centered that on the gold.

I constructed my Poinsettia but die cutting Basic White cardstock (this is a good place to use up scrap pieces from other projects), I cut all three to the layers from the Poinsettia Dies and shaped them just a bit with my bone folder.  I added a bit of the Old Olive Pretty Peacock Ribbon to the back of the Poinsettia and then used some Dimensionals to add this to my card front.  I then cut two of the branches from the dies from scraps of Gold Foil and tucked them up under my Poinsettia.  I cut two of the leaves from the dies out of more scraps, this time Evening Evergreen, again I shaped these with my bone folder and tucked them up under the flower.  For the center of the Pointsettia I die cut the center from the dies out of Gold Foil and added 7 little Pearl Basic Jewels to finish it off. 

I hope you enjoy this card I certainly enjoyed making it.  As always you can find the supplies to create this card and much more on my website at https://craftwithronnie.stampinup.net or by click the shopping button at the top of this blog or the link to the supplies listed below. 

Happy Crafting!!! 

Product List

Poinsettia Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [153475]	Poinsettia Dies [153522]	Ever Eden 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [159996]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Soft Succulent 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155776]
Evening Evergreen 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155574]	Gold Foil Sheets [132622]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219]	Old Olive/Pretty Peacock 3/8" (1 Cm) Reversible Ribbon [149496]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Metallics Embossing Powders [155555]	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]