Beautiful Poinsettia

Good morning everyone, I'm so excited as today the mini catalogue for August- December has gone live yayyy............ I can now share lots of projects with you all, and those of you who know me will know that christmas cards is my absolute favourite so I'm in my element at the moment in my craft room LOL...........

Today's project I absolutely loved putting together and the finish I think is really great, thanks to all the amazing new products fron Stampn' Up! I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator not only are the products second to none but I also get to play with them before they go live WIN WIN for me........

So let's get started with todays project..

Materials needed:

Real red cardstock

1pc - 14.5cm x 21cm scored on the longside @ 10.5cm - card base

1pc - 5cm x 12cm for the front banner

Scrap piece to die cut 3 x ferns

Whisper white cardstock

1pc - 10.1cm x 14.1cm for the front embossed layer

1pc - 9.7cm x 13.7cm for the inside layer

1pc - 1.8cm x 9cm for the sentiment

Garden green cardstock

1pc - 10.1cm x 14.1cm for the inside layer

Scrap piece ot die cut and emboss 3 x leaves

Poinsettia place dsp

1pc - 4.7cm x 11.5cm for the front banner layer

1 die cut poinsettia from the sheet with these on

Plush Poinsettia speciality paper

1 die cut Poinsettia from the sheet with these on

Soft suede cardstock

Scrap piece to stamp and die cut 1 x berries

Silver foil sheets

Scrap piece for die cutting 2 x ferns

Real red ribbon

Approx 16" to tie a bow around the front layer

Card recipe:

1. Cut, score and burnish your card base.

2. Cut and emboss with the embossing folder your front whisper white layer.

3. Cut and glue inside your card the 2 x layers in garden green and whisper white.

4. Cut and stamp (using the Stampin' write marker pens) your sentiment and then angle the side of it to give it a bit of interest.

5. Cut your real red card piece and your dsp piece for your banner, giving both of them tails, which you can do by marking the centre of one end of each piece and then going up 5cm and cuting from each corner to the centre mark. Now you can glue the dsp onto the card piece at the top and bottom giving it a slight curve.

6. Glue the banner piece onto the left side of the embossed whisper white piece of card and then you can wrap the ribbon around this whole piece and tie it into a bow. Secure the bow using a glue dot.

7. Glue this whole piece now to the front of your base card using tear n tape over the ribbon so it gets securd down in place.

8. Having die cut all of your elements for your flower out you can now using a craft knife cut the small flower out of the centre of the die cut flower as in picture below. 

(this enables you to get more depth to your flower and it covers the glue dot showing through your vellum flower).

9. Attach all of your ferns and pieces to the back of your flower, where you would like them to be and then using dimensionals attach your flower to the front of your card onto the banner.

10. Attach your sentiment to the front of your card, add some rhinestones and using a glue dot attach your beaded pearl onto your flower. Card finished.

Hope you like the project I absolutely loved putting this together, the suite is such a beautiful combination of papers, vellums stamps, dies and more you really need to give it a look.

Until next time take care and keep crafting.

Big Crafty Hugs

Natalie xx

Products used:

Poinsettia Place suite 155109

Snow emboss folder 153577

Whisper white cardstock 106549

Garden green cardstock 108605

Soft suede cardstock 119982

Soft suede classic stampin' pad 147115

Real red cardstock 106578

Silver foil sheets 132178

Multipurpose liquid glue 154974

Mini glue dots 103683

Tear n tape 138995

Paper trimmer 152392

Rhinestones basic pearl 144220

Regals stampin' write markers 147155

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