CAS Christmas - Winter Flower

Back with my second post for the day!  I was blog surfing and saw a sweet card by Linda W that she did for  CAS Christmas challenge so thought I had better get a start on the Christmas cards for 2020.

Although Christmas is summer here in New Zealand we still seem to have plenty of Poinsettia flowers around.   I think it is a winter flower over the side of the world - so that's my inspiration for this card

It turned out a bit more orange than I had anticipated. but happy with it any hoo.  I used a Hero Arts stamp called "Antique Poinsettia" from 2016.  Still a favourite. I used watercolour markers scribbled onto a block and painted with a Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen.  The sentiment is a wood mounted stamp from 2005 called "Favorite Things Calligraphy" by a company called Paper Inspirations.  I can't find this one online so presume it's not longer in existence.

I am also entering this into The Flower Challenge - Anything Goes challenge #42

I popped out to the shops earlier to get a special cable so I could connect my tablet to a bigger screen for working from home.  I had a 33" TV upstairs that wasn't being used so I lugged it downstairs and set it up on my dinning table.

I got it set up so the two screens can be used separately - still need to type on the tablet - will maybe look at a cheap keyboard if I need to.