Sunday, July 29, 2012

French Foliage Poinsetta - Create with Connie & Mary #221

I'm having trouble sleeping tonight so I thought I'd get up and make some cards.
This card is for the sketch challenge with Create with Connie & Mary #211 here

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The poinsettia was made by stamping the leaf image of the French Foliage stamp set with Raspberry Ripple ink onto Cherry Cobbler card stock and embossing them with Vanilla embossing powder.  This was done 12 times. Embossing with the scented embossing powder is a very aromatic experience!!  The larger leaves (3 of them) were stamped with Garden Green ink onto Gumball Green card stock and also embossed with Vanilla embossing powder. Each leaf was then cut out and glued to a 1 1/4" circle. The larger leaves were attached to the underside of the poinsettia. The center of the flower is a Boho blossom punched in Summer Starfruit sponged with Raspberry Ripple.  A gold glimmer brad completes the flower.
The poinsettia was mounted onto a 2 1/2" champagne glimmer circle, which was attached to a large paper doily painted with Champagne glimmer paint. The outer edge of the doily was removed to size it better for the card.

Stamps: French Foliage, More Merry Messages, Petite Pairs
Inks: Raspberry Ripple, Garden Green
Papers: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Champagne glimmer paper, Summer Starfruit, Be of Good Cheer designer paper, Gumball Green
Accessories: Boho blossom punch, Large Doily die, Scallop border punch, Modern Word Label Punch, Word Label punch, Gold glimmer brad, 3/8" Cherry Cobbler seam binding, dimensionals, Champagne glimmer paint.

7 comments:

Sharri C said...

Beautiful! I will be casing this flower....thanks.

Jen Mitchell said...

So nice to see Christmas in July! This is such a beautiful poinsetta with the bright center! Thanks for joining us at Create With Connie and Mary!

Deb said...

Wow!! Maria, this is stunning! The glimmer paper and gold brad really make it sparkle! Thanks for playing the challenge at Create with Connie and Mary!

Melissa Davies said...

Simply beautiful card! LOVE all the simmer & glitter! Thanks for playing along this week with Create w/ Connie & Mary

Connie Babbert said...

So pretty...love the flower! It will soon be time to start cranking out those Christmas cards! I can't believe we are heading into August already! Thanks for playing along with the sketch challenge this week on Create with Connie and Mary!

Lisa Martz said...

Very pretty Christmas card. Love the flower with all the layers. Thanks for playing the Create with Connie & Mary challenge this week!

Mary Brown said...

What a pretty poinsettia! Love all the layers you have in there! Thanks for playing along in the Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge!