Saturday, December 8, 2018

A Card, Finally! Edit: Crafting for a Cause

With the emphasis on tags, it has been over a week since I posted a card.  The Christmas cards I am sending out this year are fairly time consuming.  I needed a diversion.  I had this digital image printed up for several weeks so I grabbed it and turned it into a card.
The poinsettias are digital stamps by Doodle Pantry.  I copied the same image three times, turning them slightly before printing.  The flowers and leaves were colored with Copics and Prisma pencils.  The sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketch was a perfect way to use this.   Merry Christmas is stamped  with a Verve stamp.   I bought the ribbon just a few days ago with the intention of using it for packages but it was the perfect ribbon for this layout and I love the silver sparkle and shine to it.
If you compare the sketch to my card, you will see the ribbon placement is in the wrong place.  Confession time - after I adhered the ribbon to the designer paper, I glued the paper to the card upside down.  ( Be honest now - I know I am not the only one who has done that. )  Using Scor-tape, Tombow tape runner and Tombow Multi glue, there was no way that piece was coming off!!! so I just went with it.

EDIT:  After writing out this post, I read about the Kat Scrappiness Blog hop and the benefit for the Coffee Oasis.  I am a Washingtonian and I lived in Kitsap County for 15 years so I was excited to read about the Coffee Oasis. So I am editing this post to let you know about the  bloghop and benefit for this coffee house and their work with teens.  Please check it out and consider a donation. 


Challenges:
Tuesday Morning Sketches
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Crop Stop - anything
Work It Wednesday - holiday
Three Amigos - Christmas/ winter
Stamploration theme - big words

Kat Scrappiness Kat Scrappiness- charity bloghop

34 comments:

  1. Love the traditional red and green on your beautiful card! Those poinsettias are so pretty!

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  2. Beautiful poinsettias! I love the card design too!

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  3. Lol! I've done way worse than glue my card front upside down! I call it "double matting" because I cut the card front off with the top of the base and glue on to another base😜 Thank you for sharing your lovely card!

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  4. Aren't digis wonderful for making quick cards? I just love those traditional colors with red poinsettias and green leaves! It's a wonderful card and thanks for playing along with the Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge!

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  5. This is a wonderful take on the sketch and a beautiful card!

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  6. Your card is beautiful and elegant (and I like the ribbon placement up higher lol). I am glad you joined this awesome hop, I love charity hops and finding new makers to follow so yep, I'm a new follower. Thanks for the inspiration, I love your card.
    #AwarenessMatters (mardy14@bellsouth.net)

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  7. A very pretty festive card . The large sentiment is perfect for our December theme and sketch challenge over at Stamplorations. Thanks so much for joining in x

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  8. Such a pretty card. Love the poinsettias :)

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  9. Lovely card - the poinsettias are perfect!

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  10. Beautiful card!!
    (I still use DP images... I have many printed from when we were still going!!)
    Thanks for playing along with us at Tuesday Morning Sketches
    Debbie ~ TMS DT
    Debbie's Dash of This and That

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  11. Love the poinsettias and the background. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

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  12. Love the poinsettias, they are so realistic. Delightful!

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  13. The poinsettias are beautiful. Great card.

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  14. Really beautiful card! I love digital images and I really miss Doodle Pantry. Great job. Thank you for joining us at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

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  15. Great card, the poinsettias are beautiful.

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  16. Beautiful Christmas design with all those wonderful poinsettias.

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  17. Very pretty card and I think your "mistake" turned out great.

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  18. Nice Christmas card, love the poinsettias.

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  19. Beautiful with a classic Christmas look!! Lovely coloring on the poinsettias!
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

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  20. Beautiful card! Love the poinsettias.

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  21. Beautiful card! I have certainly taped things together incorrectly, too!

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  22. Your card is so
    Pretty-Love those
    poinsettias!

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  23. Such a beautiful card in traditional Christmas colors! I love it! Thanks so much for linking this up to the Cropstop blog this month!

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  24. thanks for sharing your amazing inspiration, I just love your card!

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  25. Beautifully colored poinsettias! Thanks so much for playing along with Three Amigos!

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  26. WOnderful Holiday card! Beautiful coloring!
    Thank u so much for playing with us at STAMPlorations this month! Do join us again! :)

    Suchi-DT xx

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