Christmas Poinsettia

This week I decided to use up some waste...we all have some, you know, those strips of paper that you've saved 'just in case'.  I have used a stamp from a Magenta set, which I felt leant itself to decoupaging.  


I stamped and heat embossed in a variety of colours - gold, silver, black, white, crystal sparkle....and I used all the waste strips.


 

I cut out one as a whole square, then for each, either one flower, or two if you want more dimension.



 
I slightly shaped the petals by rolling each petal over some scissor blades ***DO BE CAREFUL** 

As you can see, I simply matted the square onto a complimentary piece of card (the two shown are on a gold and a silver mat), and onto an A5 card.  I layered the cut out poinsettia flowers using silicone gel, the first I matched up to the base square, the second I rotated slightly.  I added a few glue dots to the centre and some tiny little bead/balls (which I always thought were called ballentine....but apparently not).  A few peel off words (that's two weeks running I have used peel offs to accent.....I must need a lie down),  and some more Christmas cards finished.
Christine