SSS, Poinsettia Cover

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Today I'm working with my Poinsettia Cover. This is another great cover for mass production because you can mix and match colors, and the pieces are large and very easy to assemble. 

I love using metallics for Christmas cards, so I pulled out a bunch of my metallic Matte cardstocks. I due cut the cover plate from Gold, Silver, and Champagne. For this first card, I used Silver as the base, Gold for the leaves and dots, and Champagne for the petals.

the sentiment, from my Holiday Messages set, was gold embossed on Matte Silver, and die cut. The secondary sentiment, also from Holiday Messages, was gold embossed directly on the Silver base, and then I popped the die cut sentiment up with foam tape.

For the next card, I used the Matte Champagne piece as the base and then inlaid all of the Silver pieces.

I used my Joyful dies for the sentiment. The shadow piece that comes with the Joyful die is much wider, but I wanted a more streamline feel, so I used the coordinating die for the stamp set as the shadow piece and popped the completed sentiment up with foam tape.

I also added a few Cottontail embellishments to complete the card.

The previous two cards were a little more subtle and elegant, but I wanted this next card to be bolder, so I die cut the cover from a piece of Matte Red cardstock.  This time, I used Gold for the base, red for the petals, Champagne for the leaves, and then die cut a few extra Silver dots.

The joy die was cut from Matte Red with a Matte Gold shadow piece, and was then popped up with foam tape.

For my last card, I thought I would do something completely different, and go with a more rustic feel.

The cover was die cut from Kraft, and then I inked up all the die cut pieces using blending brushes.

I tried to keep the inking relatively light, because I wanted to preserve the kraft look. The petals were inked with Watermelon, the leaves with Fairway, and the dots with Honey.

The sentiments, from the Holiday Messages set, were inked with Lisa Horton Solid Gold ink.

Hope this gives you some good ideas for how to use this die. I can't believe it's almost time to send these out!