Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Color Dare #258

Love Poinsettias...while on a break from a Copic Class this past weekend at our local Scrapbook Store, what do you do? Of course look for something you need. Since the color challenge had Ruby this was a necessary purchase for my Design Team Card, and the greens sufficed for the leaves and a Holly die purchased a couple weeks ago in preparation for Christmas cards (another necessary purchase).  And what a great sketch to display my new dies.  

The background was a design paper from Zoe using sweet leaf, which took on the look of the sketch background.  Cut the poinsettias, distressed edges and stenciled with ruby ink, and did the same for the leaves in juniper ink.  Cut the Holly and cut off some of the stems so they could be placed around the sentiment panel in place of a doily.  The dots were a cut from the center of the poinsettia which was cut in ruby, placed randomly on the holly leaves, inside and outside of the card.  

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #258: We are challenging you to using CTMH Challenge "Jack" Paper Pack (All and Only) Colors: Juniper, Ruby, Slate, Sweet Leaf, Whisper, White Daisy and Black.  

If you don’t have these CTMH colors you may substitute similar colors. Hop on by and see the many inspirational cards by our DT and other entrants.  See below for Announcement for next month's color challenges  

CTMH colors were used in combination to the Tuesday Morning Sketches #417

and  theme from Camp Create Day 5: Delightful Die Cutting  

Since this was an All and Only, I wasn't sure how I was going to bring in the whisper and slate on this card, but going through my CTMH embellishments there was a set of "Licorice gems" which had these two shades of gray.  

The left over holly leaves were used on the inside of the card as a border and more poinsettia dies cut in ruby.  

Also submitted to the following Challenges:  

Three Amigos Bloghop "Inspirational Challenge "Jack" 
     Using all the colors of paperpack "Jack"
The Outlawz "Festive Fridays - Christmas"  
Happy Little Stampers "Anything Goes With Dies" 


CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:  
Design Paper 
     Zoe
Cardstock 
     Juniper, Ruby, Sweet Leaf and White Daisy
Stamp Set 
     B1455 Be Jolly 
Inks 
     Ruby, Juniper and Black 
Cricut Design Space 
     Resized and cut an Oval
Dies 
     Penny Black #51-152 Jolly Holly 
     Dee's Distinctively #IME-047 Poinsettia
Embellishments 
     Licorice Adhisive Gems (Slate and Whisper)