Monday 12 December 2011

Christmas Smile

It's Monday - a new week and we are getting much closer to Christmas!
I feel so much more festive now my tree is up - at last!  Pictures below.

Today's card.  As mentioned yesterday, this is one of the Christmas projects for 
Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine with a running theme of Layered Poinsettia
This time cut from glitter card.  I've used Holly Motifs as a backing for the poinsettia, 
the lovely Cosmo Cricket - Odds and Ends paper and a some sewing and inking.  
The beauty of shabby chic is your sewing does not have to be perfect - suits me!! 

So the tree.. this was the beginning...
And after a few hours and puppy assistance we achieved this...
It's not perfect but arranging beads with a puppy on one end of them is quite a challenge.  
I'm also going shopping - my tree needs a new star! 
Tomorrow Bella will pick a winner from the dotty tea cup - all the details are in this post -
it's not too late to leave a comment there and be in with a chance of winning some nice goodies.
Also tomorrow more poinsettias!! (In Spring I promise to switch to daisies!)
Bye for now.

11 comments:

melanie said...

Beautiful Card , and a lovely tree Bella has done well Melanie

Hellma said...

Love todays card Christine, the poinsettia looks fab with the glitter card. Love your tree.

Lucycat said...

A great card. The tree looks good too. Bella looks as if it might be her next toy.

Craftychris said...

Beautiful card and gorgeous tree. Lets hope Bella doesn't like to play with it too much!! My tree is up now too! x

Unknown said...

Lovely card, lovely tree, lovely puppy! Love, Julia xxx

Redanne said...

The glitter card makes the flower look even more Christmassy, it is lovely. The tree looks beautiful, I am sure Bella was a big help - she is so gorgeous. Regards, Anne Rx

Unknown said...

Another beautiful card using that lovely poinsettia die. Gorgeous tree and what a helpful puppy!!! lol

Linda (Lindyloo) said...

Congrats on getting the tree up, I still haven't been able to do mine as yet. Doesn't it get you in the Christmas spirit once it's up though?!
A lovely little card Christine, and the backing paper is very sweet. As to the imperfect sewing, I think it looks good as it gives the card extra texture and as you say its shabby chic and that demands perfect imperfections. lol...
Take care Linda x

Craftin Suzie (Susan Wykes) said...

Gorgeous card and poinsettia Christine. Congrats on getting your tree up I put mine up the other day and you do feel better once it's up! Your little dog is such a sweetie xx

505whimsygirl said...

What a great card!! Love the touch of blue border.

And Bella, awww, she's adorable!!!

Carole Z said...

Love the card! And the photos :) Cutie! x

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