Mod Squad 's cutting edge challenge

Although I have made my goal this year to do at least two Christmas cards a week during the whole year and I have reached the number I usually send out, I am still wanting to make more, so I will probably be increasing my card sending list this year. I decided to use this huge poinsettia stamp (and I don't remember the source of that stamp) to add one more to my Christmas stash using the Mod Squad challenge this week as my motivation. I tried to keep it CAS as well as  keeping the background white. I masked the background and sponged on candy apple red oxide ink onto the flower and colored the leaves with Copic markers. I added gold rhinestones for the center. I love how the oxide ink left that suede type of look that make this flower seem more life like.

 

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Hi CCEE Fans,

It's Frances hosting our  last challenge for the month.

Apparently tomorrow (27th) is Black Cat Day and Sunday (29th) Cat Day. So for our challenge this week include a cat on your creations … black or not.

Want to play along with us this week, don't forget to drop back here to enter the link to your card to Mr Linky over on the CCEEStampers blogsite HERE.
And while you are there, check out all the great ideas the team came up with for this challenge. 

I used my oxide black ink for this card's background, I used distess in for the orange. The tree limb is a diecut, and the cat and secnetiment were stamped with versafine black. I wanted to give the effect that there were a few leaves still in the tree, so I stamped with my Itty Bitty StampUp stamp that I love using to add spots to.  I don't really do Halloween, but I do love the colors of Halloween and the colors of a bright full moon in the night autumn sky. 

I am entering it in this challenge too:  AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE