doily & poinsettia card

we're still totally inspired by this cozy, christmassy room at ♥JINGLE BELLES♥, and you still have plenty of time (til wednesday night!) to join us... so we hope you will!

here's my card and then i'll essplain:

not a lot of "product" on this one, plain white & kraft cardstock plus some white vellum, all of which came from paper anthology; i used a white posca paint pen for the outlines of the poinsettias and filled in the leaf veins with a sakura gelly roll pen... which i also used for the doily. beautiful pearl heart brads and white glitter enamel dots are from eyelet outlet; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, sewing machine

i saved a photo of this gorgeous card by debby hughes to my "i want to make this" file a while ago. when i saw it again the other day, i thought it would work really well for our current inspiration challenge. i mean, it's got white + kraft, a sort of rustic vibe with intricate decorations, and a little bit of sparkle on top! then i realized it uses two very beautiful (but alas no longer available) clearly besotted stamp sets, neither of which i happen to own. then i realized that i've drawn poinsettias before, so i could probably swing that, and i could always use an actual doily instead of a stamped one. eventually, it occurred to me that when you really look at a doily, it's a circular design, with repeated scalloppy motifs... and what does THAT sound like? yep. a mandala!!! :)

i'm not sure how i always manage to wind up in these art scenarios where telling the story is almost more complicated than making the actual card, but i really like how it came out!

i'm joining the "clean and simple christmas" challenge at the paper players:

and i hope you will join stephanie and me for this last ♥JINGLE BELLES♥ challenge of 2016!