Pretty in Pink

Good evening, and I'd like to welcome some new followers; I'm so delighted to have you joining me here. Please take a few minutes to surf over to enjoy these lovely blogs:
Jean (http://wwwmycraftycornerblog.blogspot.com/); Gail (http://ilikepaper01.blogspot.com/) and April (http://stampwillydesigns.blogspot.com/)

Tonight's card is for the Pretty in Pink Challenge #22 over at a Christmas Club blog
This is a group of very talented ladies who make Christmas cards & were gracious enough to ask me to join in. I'm going to be in some very artistic, creative company, but I'll get some great inspiration I know. I've been visiting their individual blogs for a while, so I know the kind of beauties they produce.

Hot pink 4 1/4x5 1/2 piece was covered with embossed vellum. (this was a Darice Baubles EF). Hot pink gauze ribbon wrapped as a border before adhering to the pink card base. S/B Poinsettia used for the flower; leaves from a lightweight glitter paper pack, shaded with different green pan pastels, shaped with a stylus.  I started with just 3 (the rule of 3, don't ya know), but it didn't look balanced that way. The same pack yielded the pink glitter paper, also shaded with some green pan pastels. My real pink or red poinsettias always have a touch of green in the leaves.  I used 2 layers of each blossom die to create fullness. Orange rhinestones glued in for the center stamens.

SU sentiment stamped with Versamark, heat embossed with Ranger Queens Gold on a snippet of vellum, punched with a scalloped SU punch. Used a snippet of the pink glitter behind the vellum.
Pretty simple card, and the S/B was a NBUS for me and I don't make very many flowers.

I'll enter this card in the Christmas Card Club Admin challenge, but since I have 2 tiny snippets,
I'd like to join my buddies over at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground for Week 99, Part 1. Let me tell you, there are some FAN-tastic cards to see there, not to mention some good prizes for a random winner. You can leave the Head Pixie a little love, cause she is 'down in her back' and could use some good cheer, I expect. She works hard running that Snippet Playground, hunting down prizes and just keeping all the Playmates out of mischief.

So thanks for joining me on a rainy evening of what has been a very dreary day, and Halleulah, the attic workers finally left. A 'couple of hours to finish the job' has taken ALL DAY! I had to sign off that they cleaned up the work area, so I hope DH did a good inspection when I sent him up. (He's a nice guy, I have to be the hard nose at our house!) Hugs from me to you.