Spellbinders September 14th 2018 Blog Hop

Hello everyone,
I am so thrilled and honoured to be joining Spellbinders for their 14th September Blog Hop today. I am sharing a layered Christmas card with handmade flowers made using the exquisite dies from the A Charming Christmas Collection by Becca Feeken.

You should have arrived from the incredibly talented, Becca Feeken's blog. If not, I do have the full blog hop list at the end of the post. Today, we are featuring the following four collections: A Sweet Christmas by Sharyn Sowell, Zenspired Holidays by Joanne Fink, A Charming Christmas by Becca Feeken & Holiday Die D-Lites.

If you would like to see some more inspiration using the A Charming Christmas Collection, then you can check out my posts at the Spellbinders blog HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Here's my card using the A Charming Christmas collection:

My card measures 7" X 5" and is a top-folding one. To create this card, I started by die cutting the large elegant frame from the Holly Jolly Christmas Etched Die set from Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80 LBS cardstock. Next, I die cut a coordinating frame from the same collection using gold foil cardstock. I adhered the gold frame using foam tape so that it would have some dimension.

I wanted the sentiment to be the main focus of my card, hence I decided to use the 'Merry Christmas' Word die from the Holly Jolly Christmas Etched Die set for my card. I die cut it twice, once from bright red cardstock and the other from white fun foam. I adhered the red die-cut over the white fun foam and glued this piece to the center of my card.

I used the Cinch and Go Poinsettia die set to create the flower clusters on both sides of my card. I die cut the Poinsettias from White Foamiran and inked the centers using a pink Zig Clean Colour Brush Marker. I added some ink to the center of the die-cut and spread it around using my fingers. 

I also added a bunch of thread pollens to the flower centers in order to give them some dimension and structure. The leaves were die cut from Olive Foamiran using the same die I used for creating the flower.

At this point, I felt the card was still missing something, so I die cut few holly leaves using the tiny three-leaf holly cluster die included in the Holly Jolly Christmas Etched Die set from Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80 LBS cardstock. I coloured the berries and leaves using my Zig Clean Colour Brush Markers. 

If you see my card closely, you will notice that I have coloured some leaves and berries directly on the large white frame as well. I tried to strike a balance so that the card design would not get very cluttered

And here's a final look at my card for today. Hope you enjoyed seeing it!

Giveaways:

To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to one lucky blog reader - selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. Giveaway closes on Sunday, September 23rd at 11:59 pm EDT. The winner will be announced in the blog hop post the following Monday. Winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties and taxes.

Your next stop on the hop is the wonderful, Kittie Caracciolo!

Blog Hop Order:

Spellbinders

Tina Smith

Sharyn Sowell

Virginia Lu

Jennifer Snyder

Becca Feeken

                           Hussena Calcuttawala  (You are HERE!)

Kittie Caracciolo

Lin Brandyberry

Mona Tóth

Elena Salo

Desiree Kuemmerle

Svitlana Shayevich

May Sukyong Park

Laurie Willison

Nichol Spohr

Leigh Houston

Keeway Tsao

I would love to hear what you think of my card :) Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. Have a great day!