Hello crafty friends. Today I have another slimline card for you, a 2020 Christmas card using Stampin’ Up! Poinsettia Petals bundle from the 2020 Stampin’ Up! August to December Mini Catalogue. The whole Poinsettia Place Suite is so pretty!

For my card, I started with a 21cm x 10cm slimline Crumb Cake card base and I added a layer of the Plush Poinsettia Specialty Paper which is 20cm x 9cm in size. This has a luscious flocked design on vellum and is so pretty, plus adds great texture. I’ve added more texture by looping some Braided Linen Trim below where I planned for my flower and greeting to go.

Instructions for Creating the Poinsettia Flower

To create my flower, I gold embossed the three different sized poinsettia’s from the Poinsettia Petal stamp set onto Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. I then spritzed with water and used then added watery ink from the lid of my ink pad (created this by dropping a couple of drops of water into the ink residue in the lid – just make sure you wipe with a paper towel when finished so you don’t dilute your ink pad). Because the watercolor paper is wet, the colour quickly spreads and you get a random distribution of the colour. I love this messy watercolour look. To get some variation in colour, I used two colours on the flower, Real Red and Cherry Cobbler.

Next I layered these together with a Dimensional between each layer and the gorgeous Beaded Pearls as the flower centre.

Finally I watercoloured some leaves from the Poinsettia Petals stamp set, and die cut some berrie sprigs in metallic brushed gold to add some bling. Love how all the layers look when they are put together.

Slimline cards are fun to make. There’s a little more real estate to play with, but don’t let that scare you. 

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