Blue Poinsettia Card

I recently saw Altenew Educator Walter Zemrock post a card in the Altenew Facebook Fan Group with a blue poinsettia, and I loved it so much I decided I needed to make one myself! While he colored glitter cardstock with alcohol ink markers to create his blue poinsettia, I let some beautiful metallic shimmer blue cardstock do the work for me! The cardstock was from the now closed Your Paper Insider company, and it's stunning in real life! The silver glitter cardstock is also from Your Paper Insider, and I die cut the flower center and a layer of leaves using it to add a bit of sparkle to the card. 

I created a top-folding white A2 card base and then trimmed a piece of the metallic shimmer blue cardstock to 4 1/8 by 5 3/8 to layer on the card front. I didn't want any of that beautiful cardstock to go to waste, so I cut some of the poinsettia die cuts out of the center of it before adhering it down to the white card base. I then die cut the other pieces of the poinsettia (using Altenew's Poinsettia 3D die set) and Altenew's Fancy Peace die using more of the same cardstock. I assembled my poinsettia with the layer of silver glitter leaves on the bottom and the silver glitter center adhered to the center of the poinsettia for another touch of sparkle. 

I chose some silver metallic cardstock and embossed it using Altenew's Perfect Poinsettias 3D embossing folder. I trimmed the panel to 4 by 5 1/4 and adhered it to the layer of blue cardstock on the front of the card. Then I felt like the poinsettia needed a little something behind it, so I die cut several layers of Altenew's Decorative Frames die and embossed them with the coordinating 3D embossing folder, adhered the stack of frames together, and cut the frame in half so I could extend it above and below the poinsettia. I fiddled with how I wanted to arrange the poinsettia on the pieces of the frame, and when I had decided on an arrangement I liked, I added thin strips of foam tape to the pieces of the frame and adhered the two pieces with a short gap between them to the embossed background. Then I added some foam tape to the back of the poinsettia and adhered it in the center of the frame. 

To finish the card, I die cut a few more layers of the peace die and stacked them together for dimension before adhering the sentiment below my poinsettia. 

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Challenges I'm entering:

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (5/5 for the week; 6/10 for the challenge; ends 10/29/26)

Dragonfly Dreams: Sentiment as focus (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Allsorts challenge blog: Feminine or ATG (3/5; ends 11/6/26)

Crafty Catz: ATG (3/5; ends 11/5/26)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (3/3; ends 11/5/26)

ABC Christmas Challenge: U for unused stash and V for violet (the shimmer blue metallic cardstock I used on this card is part of my mountain of unused papers I dug through for this card!) (2/3; ends 11/7/26)

Peace On Earth Christmas: ATG Christmas (2/3; ends 10/29/26)

Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round: T and U (U is for "unusual" color for my poinsettia; I also have T for three colors on my card: blue, silver, and white) (2/5; ends at the end of the month)

 Can You Handle The Pressure?: ATG with embossing folders with a twist of add numbers (1/3; ends 11/11/26)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges**********: ATG (2/3; ends 11/2/26) C10

No more challenges. 

I'd like to leave a blessing for all the lovely visitors to my blog: 

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;

The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.

Numbers 6:22-26