I've started getting serious about making cards for Christmas, ones for me to send and ones as samples for classes I'll be teaching later this month and in November. The one I'll show you today combines the POINSETTIA WATERCOLOR FLORAL 94676, GLORIETTE SNOWFLAKE COLLAGE 94696, and MERRY CHRISTMAS CURLED SCRIPT 94682. And, of course, I used plaid paper from JOLLY CHRISTMAS PP1019!
I decided to make the poinsettias this time using two plaid papers from JOLLY CHRISTMAS PP1019 and the POINSETTIA WATERCOLOR FLORAL 94676 die. After cutting out the pieces I layered the two plaids for each flower, so one was more pink on the larger leaves with darker red accents and vice versa on the other. (The image on the envelope the die came in is a good guide for how you might assemble the poinsettia pieces.) Then I put two flowers together to create one bigger poinsettia.
I had already chosen another red plaid from the Jolly Christmas papers and trimmed it 5 1/4 X 4 before adding it to the front of a white notecard. When I rested the poinsettia on the card, it looked like it needed something to anchor it and separate the plaids in the flower from the plaid background a bit. I chose some gold glitter paper (it was a single sheet in my scrapbox from one of the Memory Box glitter pads) and die cut the GLORIETTE SNOWFLAKE COLLAGE 94696 background piece. I cut it again using white cardstock and then layered the gold one on top of the white one for a bit more dimension.
I attached the poinsettia to the gold snowflake and then used foam dots to add that to the card. I put it up high enough on the card so there would be room to add a sentiment.
I chose the MERRY CHRISTMAS CURLED SCRIPT 94682 die and used more of the gold glitter paper to cut it out. I added it to the card using a glue pen.
To finish I added the teeny-tiny center pieces of the poinsettia to the flower centers after coloring them green with a marker (tweezers were helpful for this step) and then put gold CHRISTMAS FAIRY JEWELS JWL005 in those flower centers, used them as well as to dot the i in Christmas, and then I added three more along one of the plaid lines to fill an empty space.
These are the materials I used:
I've already die cut more flower pieces from plaid papers, solid cardstock, and mirror paper and assembled them into poinsettias; and I'm storing them in the envelope with the die. I often find that making extras–even when I don't have a plan for using them yet–makes it that much easier and faster when I do come up with a card design idea. And storing them with the die also reminds me that I've done that work already and there it is!
Happy Crafting!
