Pretty Poinsettias

Welcome

Meet today's card.

I am going to describe how I made it the best way I can and I sure hope it makes sense.

I am having a blast playing with this Perfect Poinsettias embossing folder.  

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I found another piece of cardstock that I had rolled off some red and orange coloured paint onto when I was Gel Plate printing. I have a lot of these as I took a class this summer. I placed it into this Perfect Poinsettia embossing folder and embossed it.
• Using a sanding block, I went over the panel, sanding gently over the raised areas as to not tear the paper.
• To help some areas pop, I took some Barn Door and Crackling Campfire Distress Oxide ink and rubbed the pads over the raised areas.  
• It needed something else, so I inked up the Friendship background stamp with some Versamark ink and stamped right over the panel then white heat embossed it.  As you can see, the words just show up in random areas which adds interest to the bkg.
• While that dried, I die cut the sentiment, then traced around the outside of the die onto some vellum to cut out and place behind the words as a shadow.
• I glued it onto a piece of red cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I added a cluster of red gems to the center of the poinsettia.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Stamping Sensations- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Friendship bkg (Hero Arts)

Inks- Distress Oxide; Acrylic paint

Paper- red cardstock, vellum, heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Perfect Poinsettias (Altenew); sanding block; Jolly 

Merry Christmas die (Carta Bella); red gems (Dollar Store); Lawn Fawn wh eb powder