Christmas in September

Hi all, I am back from my weekend retreat and I wanted to get this card posted before I head off to bed. I will tell you all about it tomorrow and show some of the pictures that I took. This card is a Christmas card. I have been practicing making flowers while I was gone and decided to make a poinsetta for my card.The pattern for the poinsetta is from Kayla's Kreation, a paper piecing program that I have. I usually use it for scrapbooking and since I got some done this weekend and found this while I was looking for something else.

The papers used are Basic Grey from the Eskimo Kisses pad, the cardstock is Bazzill, the poinsettas were cut from scraps from my file and sprayed with smooche. The sentiment was cut with the Spellbinders fancy tag and stamped with a Penny Black stamp from a Christmas set that I got on clearance at Hobby Lobby. The red paper with the swirls is from a pack of handmade papers from  Hobby Lobby also.I used my new spellbinders inverted scallop circle, which I bought last week from Hobby Lobby. It is one of the ones that they have clearanced out. I thought it was different, I don't see many people use this one. I used stickles on the leaves of my flowers. That is it. My card has lots of layers and no coloring. Wow, no copics were used in the making of this card. They will be back tomorrow.

There are challenges to be entered. I was gone for 3 days and had no internet service or cell phone service. So it is good to be back to civilization.

Your Next Stamp Challenge Make your own flowers (use a stamp digi or traditional--I used a sentiment stamp)

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Circles (I used an inverted scallop circle)

Charisma Cardz Challenge Christmas Crafting

Paper Cutz Three patterned papers

Friday Sketchers 

Creative Inspiration Christmas in September

Crafty Den anything Goes Going around in circles (inverted scallop circle)

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Layers

Stamp Scrap and doodle Saturday Anything goes

Pixie Dust Studios Swirly Swirls (on my red layer)

Well, this is it for now. I would love to hear from you. I will be back tomorrow with pictures from my weekend.