Christmas Houndstooth and buttons challenge

I have borrowed two challenges this weekend to inspire me to make a card.
The Elite Challenges have 3 new challenges every month and Paper Pals Arts have one.
So this is the card I made this morning.

 The Elite challenge was by way of a sketch (If you turn to page 116 in your Stampin' Up 2011 catalogue you will see the layout that I got this from).
And the Paper Pals Arts challenge was a photo inspiration. I just took some of my colours from there and the fun flower was already cut and on my table.

 In real life the Real Red, Pear Pizzazz and Poppy Parade are very vibrant together. They are a little paler in these pictures. Perhaps I need to tweak the colours in my browser.

Featured products I have used are:

Houndstooth embossing folder

Buttons Embosslits no 5. (on sale 10% off - Don't miss the Big shot special this month)

Fun Flowers Die

Two Tags Die

Pear Pizzaz seam binding ribbon

Ice circle Rhinestone brad.

Timeless Type alphabet dies

corner rounder, sponges and

'Heard from the heart' stampset.

 Enjoy!!!

Big shot Fun Flowers and a Pocket full of Posies

 What do you do when you have a box of new Stampin' Up goodies?

You make things ... you play with all your toys and see what you come up with.

I love creating, copying, designing and giving away my creations.

This Fun Flowers die is so so versatile: I have made it using "Pocketful of Posies" designer series paper.

What I love about this die is you can cut it out in fabric, cardstock, chipboard, acetate (window sheets), velum, felt, cork and it will cut through 8 layers of fabric with ease.

The Pocketful of Posies papers have a great selection of colours:

Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Night of Navy, Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso, Soft suede and Poppy parade.  It coordinates with just about anything.

It even works with my favourite Wisteria Wonder ruffled ribbon.

Now shall I pin this on a card, a box, my shirt, a hat or bookmark?