I'm finally getting to my Christmas Cards - and this one is for 3 special challenges! The first is for this week's Queen - Angella Crockett. Angella has an amazing talent for creating unique and beautiful cards - what a wonderful time I had visiting her gallery!! I quickly fell in love with this beauty: { AngellaÂ’s AMAZING Bleached Dahlia Happy Day Card }
Her card is breathtaking!! And seeing all her wonderful ODBD creations inspired me to check out the ODBD Challengs for this week, and then to choose this wonderful ODBD Poinsettia Collage Image. Changes were with colors, number of layers and flourish.
This card is also for Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge #129 - To make a Winter White creation. I love white cards so this was a fun challenge for me!! {ODBDSLC129 Winter White Challenge Link}.
My third source of inspiration was from today's IC Challenge - Anne shared with us a website that I'm very familiar with, especially around this time of year. It's Angelic Dreamz - and I chose this wonderful Peace votive: {Peace Votive}
To make this card I stamped the Poinsettia image in Chocolate Chip Craft Ink and clear embossed it on SU! Naturals Vanilla cardstock. I then bleached inside the flower petals using a small paint brush. The bleach didn't whiten the area as much as I'd hoped, so I went over it with a White Prismacolor pencil. I added some shading, die-cut and punched my shapes, created the flower center, outlined and colored the gold areas using a 18K Gold Leaf pen, and assembled. I love this image so much I really wanted to keep the card as 'CAS' as possible........ So I kept it to two layers with minimal embellishments.
Thank you Angella for your amazing inspiration!! Enjoy your crown - it's well deserved !!!!
Hugs Everyone!
Audrey
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2012 GMT Views: 4815
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Registered: April 4, 2006 Location: St Louis, MO Posts: 6368
Sat, Nov 10, 2012 @ 9:16 PM
Wowzers!!! This is eye popping gorgeous! Your poinsettia looks like it was fussy cut and layered onto a stamped background! I am in awe of what you have done with 2 layers of paper! Love this work of art!
Registered: March 15, 2012 Location: Alabama Posts: 11018
Sat, Nov 10, 2012 @ 10:22 PM
So beautiful Audrey!!! LOVE your bleached poinsettia!!! LOVE the gold trimmings and center and LOVE the printed background, okay, I LOVE it all! Spectacular Christmas card and fabulous case!!!
Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 15980
Sat, Nov 10, 2012 @ 10:49 PM
Audrey Ann, this is a gorgeous creation!! Tres elegant! I especailly love that flower center, just beautiful! Great job!!
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??
Registered: February 9, 2010 Location: Mentone, California Posts: 7361
Sat, Nov 10, 2012 @ 11:02 PM
This is a truly jaw dropping beauty! AMAZING....I LOVE everything about the design of this card. You have defintely hit one out of the park with this one.
Registered: May 31, 2009 Location: East Tennessee enjoying the mountain views Posts: 32997
Sun, Nov 11, 2012 @ 2:10 AM
Gorgeous card Audrey, I need to try the bleaching technique... your colors are stunning, love the addition of the pearls for the center of your poinsettia