A Stitched Season, Pretty Poinsettia, Christmas Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I had a card I found on Pinterest that I left open on my computer so I could give it a try. You can see the original card by clicking here. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of the card is a folded half-sheet of Real Red card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left. I cut a 3" x 4" piece of Designer Series Paper (DPS) from the "A Stitched Season" 12" x 12" package. A 2-1/4" x 3" x 4" piece of Old Olive card stock was cut for the top part. I taped the two pieces to the front of the card.

A 1/4" x 4" piece of Real Red was taped to the top edge of the piece of DSP. 

Next I cut the arch from the Everyday Arches" set. I used the 5th arch in that set on a piece of Basic White card stock.

The bird, tree and quilt looking piece were all fussy cut from the same package of DSP and the leaves are actually petals from a die in the "Pretty Poinsettia" bundle.  I cut them apart to add them later.

I laid the fussy cut pieces in place where I thought they would be going so I could see where to stamp the words. The words are from the "Pretty Poinsettia" bundle and were stamped using Basic Black ink. Once stamped on the arched piece, I taped it to the front of the card. I centered it as much as I could by eyeing it as best as I could. I always say, if it looks centered to me, it's centered enough!

Using tape, I added the bird first. I just laid the tree on next but didn't tape it down so I could see where to tape the quilt looking piece down. Once the quilt piece was affixed in place, I put Dimensionals to the back of the tree and set it in place.

Tape was added to the ends of the leaves and they were set in place. under the bird and quilted looking piece.

I took a piece of white baker's twine and tied a bow. It was glued to the trunk of the tree.

I thought the top of the card could use something so I added some dots from the "Adhesive Bats, Ghosts & Dots" package.

Digging thought my stash of buttons, I found one that was a nice size to fit on the quilted looking piece. And the card was done.

This was a fun card to make and I really like the looks of it. It's too bad there's not a lot of those birds in the package or I'd be making more of them. I have a few other cards to make that uses that bird so I'm going to hold off on making more of this one.  The paper is temporarily out of stock too!  It's just too fun and pretty!

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's Christmas card,
Wanda