Christmas Poinsettia Squared

Hi there!!

So i meant to do a lot of card making this past weekend.... but life got in the way! :)  But i've been busy the past couple days and today i have a card for 2 challenges: CAS-ual Friday's and PTI's Make It Monday.

The CAS-ual Friday challenge this week is to make a square card. And PTI's Make It Monday is stitching on your card. I combined both into this card (my card is 5.5 by 5.5 inches):

I love cross stitching and currently working on a project so my many plastic floss storage boxs are currently in my car (my project is a kit, so the needed thread is included). But luckily i have a few stray skeins in my arm chair caddy. I found a dark pink metallic thread and along with some metallic thread. This dark pink went perfect with PTI's Autumn Rose ink.

I die cut and stamped the poinsettias from PTI's Christmas Poinsettia set. The stamp has dash lines down each petal, so i pre-pierced some wholes along the lines and then back stitched with the dark pink metallic thread.

I made 2 flowers, one with the large and medium flowers and the other with another medium and the smallest flower. To attach the layers in each flower, i used French Knots with the gold metallic thread.

Then i die cut and stamped some leaves. Next i stamped and embossed (gold) the sentiment. Last i adhered the leaves and then the flowers with pop up dots to the black cardbase.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink: Christmas Poinsettia, Bells & Boughs
Dies: Papertrey Ink: Christmas Poinsettia
Ink: Papertrey Ink: Autumn Rose, Ripe Avocado
Thread: DMC: E3685 (Light Effects). Kreinik: Gold (not sure the size, the sticker fell off, but i do know it is not a cord but maybe a very fine braid) :)