Great Impressions Poinsettia

For those of you who like poinsettia cards, here is a beautiful layered one.  This card uses the Great Impressions poinsettia K40.  First stamp it on green using a watermark pad.  Next, stamp it twice on red shimmer card stock and once on red vellum.  Emboss one of the red shimmer poinsettias using Red Chili Pepper embossing powder.  Emboss the other two using Butter Rum opaque embossing glitter.   All embossing powders are by PK Glitz.  Cut out all three of the embossed poinsettias and layer them on top of each other.  For the  bottom layer, I cut out all of the flowers, but  for the top I cut out only some of the petals. The top two layers are adhered with foam mounting squares for some added dimension.  The Merry Christmas is an outline sticker.  We finally got in quite a few packages of these.  As a final “extra” I added some red rhinestones to the holly berries and outlined the leaf veins using a glitter pen.

As always, you can find all the supplies to make this card at Creating Lasting Memories.

Cards on display at the Chetco library

Creating Lasting Memories is this month’s guest artist at the Chetco library.  Stop by the display in the lobby and check out the featured cards, scrapbooks and altered books.  I included a lot of typed information about the hobby along with the samples.  So far, the feedback has been very positive.  Let me know what you think.

Scrapbooks on display at the Chetco library

Here’s a great card by Chris Liles, one of our fantastic, creative volunteers at Creating Lasting Memories.  She works on Fridays if you want to stop by and say, “Hi.” This card was made using pearlescent embossing paste and Dreamweaver stencil LJ896 (that lovely big flourish).  The card stock is Prism Classic Red.  You will need an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 for the base and one 4 x 5 1/4 for the top.  It is layered to Prism white cut 4 1/8  x 5  3/8.  The sentiment is Cornish Heritage Farms ML7008FUM Christmas Traditions.  This unmounted cling set has a bunch of seasonal sayings.  Chris stamped it and embossed with Red Chili Pepper embossable glitter from PKGlitz.  It was die cut with Spellbinders labels 3.  If I was making a lot of these cards, I would cut all the red top cardstock pieces at once, then emboss them all and leave overnight to dry.  But if you hate to wait for things to dry (I know how that feels too) Chris said it worked just fine to hit it with the heat gun briefly.  If you want to add a little more bling, put some clear or silver rhinestones on some of those dots and tie a sheer ribbon around the top.

As with all of these cards we will be featuring on the blog this month, you can find all the supplies she used at the store.  Happy holidays!