I made this pink Christmas card for today's FS challenge and also for the Hope You Can Cling To challenge, Flower Power (HYCCT0. Congrats to Jenn and I chose her Gerbera Daisy to case. I kept the flower as focal point and horizontal layout, but added stamped/die cut images and some extra layers w/ dp.
I'm so touched by this partnership w/ MD Anderson as it is a place w/ great meaning to me. My daughter (and only child) was diagnosed w/ Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2008 and after chemo, she went to MD Anderson and was treated by Dr Cox and his team w/ their Proton Radiation Therapy. Thanks to this type of radiation, she did not suffer the collateral damage to nearby organs she would have w/ conventional radiation. I will be eternally grateful to them for this. BTW, she's doing great now and just had her second clean scan in a row!!
I stamped two of the poinsettias, colored them with markers and a water brush and used the new ODBD matching Poinsettia die to cut them out. I layered one flower on top of the other and cut a few of the petals in order to pop them up a little. On the pink background, I stamped a large filigree snowflake w/ pink pigment ink , then embossed it with a CB folder.
The sentiment is part of a larger one that I colored the part I wanted w/ a marker and stamped it. It's cut with a Quickutz oval die. I cut a flourish piece out of the dp, attached it to white c/s, then hand cut around it. I cut the striped dp layer piece on the diagonal so I wouldn't have the stripes all running up and down or sideways. A little glitter was added in the flower center and it's all attached to a 5.5 x 4.25 (A2) white card.
Thanks so much for looking! My blog:The Write Stuff. Sorry! I had to delete a bunch of really old posts from my blog & this is one of them.
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Sat, Oct 09, 2010 @ 10:20 PM
What a Spectacular-Beautiful Christmas MASTERPIECE!!!!!
TWO THUMBS-UP 4 YOUR MAGNIFICENT LAY-OUT and YUMMY
COLOR SCHEME .... I Absolutely LOVE YOUR CARD....Wowzzzzaaaaa
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Sun, Oct 10, 2010 @ 2:54 AM
excellent work, precise and artistic and just so pretty to behold. Thank you for sharing your story about your DD. How wonderful that she is doing well and had no damage to her organs. Happy Sunday!