Not your usual Christmas colour

 Hi - Sunday evening here in NZ and I'm typing this while watching the All Blacks (our national rugby team) are playing Australia over in Perth.  At this stage - 25 mins into the second half, we are leading 28 - 12 however with still 15 minutes to go. Could go either way.

Anyhow, today I have a couple of Christmas cards to share that I have made this week.  First up is my Not Your Usual Christmas Colour card 

I think of traditional Christmas colours as red, green, gold.  Today I have gone for Teals and blues.   I had this Hero Arts Poinsettia stamp and die sitting on my desk and decided to stamp it onto some heavy weight vellum and white embossed it.  I coloured the reverse side with some Copic markers.  I chose a darker teal/blue stamped backgound I had in my "to be used" stack.  I did this one last year using a Catherine Pooler stamp and inks.  I made a about half a dozen backgrounds in a variety of colours.   My vellum flower seemed to sink into the background, so die cut some white card and added it behind.  The flower now popped off the card.  I cut the background with Gina K Master Layouts 2 and matted it with some bright teal card  I took a banner die from Master Layouts 2 and stamped and embossed the sentiment from Kaisercraft.  

My second Christmas card is using more traditional colours.... this time a nice green. 

My centre panel was made using Simon Hurley's craft foam - I heated the foam and pressed my Hero Arts Poinsettia stamp onto it. I then used Catherine Pooler Eucalyptus in to stamp onto my white card.  I trimed it and added to a white die cut panel (Gina K Master Layouts 4) I then layered the panel onto another of my plaid backgrounds.   I stamped the sentiment from a freebie set.  Noticed when I was photographing it, I didn't stamp the sentiment perfectly straight.   I added a few silver gems to finish.

Well the game is finished and we won... 38-21.  Good win for sure.  This game had to be posponed a bit due to NZ being in lockdown.  They had to isolate when they got to Perth, so the game was a week later than it should have been.   

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your weekend and stay safe.