A Poinsettia Quad Window!

Welcome - I'm back with another poinsettia card for the October Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

Supplies: Paper - Park Lane A2 card; 

BoBunny Winter Getaway; Poptone Black;

Paper Studio Holiday & Glitter cardstock; 

My Favorite Things Very Merry

Dies - Sunny Studio Window Quad Circles 

& Basic Mini Shapes 4;

A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set;

Hero Arts Nesting Circle Infinity Dies; 

Sizzix Joy (from a retired stamp/die set)

Other - foam tape

In my earlier post for the Kickstart challenge, I mentioned it not being Christmas card-making season without my Hero Arts Paper Layering Poinsettia set. Well, same goes for my Sunny Studio's Window Quad Circles set! I just love this set and pair it with a little freebie flower that you can find in with Sunny's Basic Mini Shapes 4 set. It makes a fabulous layered flower! Today I'm using the window part for only the second time. You can see the non-Christmas card I made with it back in 2020 HERE. If interested, you can search my blog using "quad" to find more Christmas versions using the flower.

First I die cut pieces for four flowers using red cardstock & green and gold glitter cardstock, then assembled. Next I trimmed a 3 3/4" square panel of BoBunny striped paper & die cut the Quad Circles into it. I also die cut a red circle with part of the quad and a layering circle with my Hero Arts set. Next I die cut several layers of black Joys and a topper Joy of green glitter; I assembled leaving a bit of black as a shadow. I die cut the MFT Christmas text paper with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle & adhered to an A2 card. Adhered the quad window square with foam tape & added three flowers and sentiment. 

What to do with the bottom part?? Hmmmm.... I tried a couple gold glitter strips alone - ugh. Tried with a black strip between the gold - better. With the sentiment taking up one of my circle windows, I had the 4th flower left. Added it to my black strip - finally liked the arrangement. Done!

That's entry two of a possible three for Kickstart and I already am planning card three. Just received my October Spellbinders package and found loads of poinsettia stuff inside!! Don't laugh - I haven't even opened September's box yet.... 

And here's another version of a card using the Hero Arts September 2022 My Monthly Hero kit (you can find my other two HERE). On this one, I stamped the urn bouquet in black which I like better than the brown we used in the Make-Along last weekend. We cut off the urn bottom to make a pumpkin vase during the Make-Along; I left it intact here. I stamped the background with Versamark, rather than Forest Green ink, and used a few darker Copics than last time. Another Thanksgiving card done - only two more to go! The kit contains some gorgeous rub-on urn bouquets and I plan to use them - saves some coloring time - LOL.

Thanks for stopping and happy crafting!