Merry and Bright Inlay Poinsettia

Happy Monday everyone! It's another wet one here in the UK but I have done all of my outside errands for the day so it's time to share today's card using Verena's layout over at Freshly Made Sketches:

This is one of my all-time favourite layouts and it gave me the perfect opportunity to play with some new dies - take a look:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

These are the new Poinsettia Inlay Dies from Kristina Werner and Concord & 9th; I love the modern design and the pieces are all large enough that you and piece them together without too much difficulty. I cut the base and outlines in white and infilled with sold colour cardstocks - if you look closely you can see that the petals and leaves have lightly embossed veins too:

I added my poinsettia and winter foliage to a Night of Navy base, bordering my central panel with a thin edging of white to echo the paper-pieced die cut shapes. A simple festive sentiment using the Merry Script Dies and stamps complete my card.

I really like the simple framed layout and solid colour, which gives the floral quite a clean, modern feel I think. I'm looking forward to using the dies again so stay tuned to see more festive cards featuring them.

Enjoy the rest of your day; I'm heading over to the MFS gallery to link up then my ironing pile is calling! I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!