Red Poinsettias

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Well as most of you who follow me know, I haven’t done much card making this year due to ill health. However with Christmas approaching I wanted to get some Christmas cards made. When I saw this Festive Poinsettias Betterpress Plate from Spellbinders, I just had to order it. I haven’t purchased many card making supplies this year.

One bonus of Betterpress plates is not only can they be used with the Betterpress, but you can hot foil with them as well, so a few weeks ago I pulled out my hot foil machine and few different coloured foils and spent the day foiling. I had lots of fun!

A week later I took all those foiled backgrounds and turned them into cards. I made 14 all up, way too many to share in one blog post, so I will share them over the next few weeks.

The first three cards I am sharing, are cards I created using black foil. I then used the coordinating stencil and coloured the poinsettias in various shades of red. All these cards are 5 x 7. 

This first card I created a portrait style card, the base is white. I added a white panel to the front of the card that I embossed using Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott’s Festive Tartan Embossing Folder.

All the sentiments used on my cards were also hot foiled using foil plates. The “Merry Christmas” is the negative image using a Waffle Flower Crafts foil plate.

My second card is a landscape style card and is side folding. I used green cardstock for the base. For the foiled background, I used a dark gray foil. I didn’t add an embossed panel to this one. 

The sentiment is from an older foil set from Spellbinders called Yana’s Christmas Sentiments.

My final card today is similar to the second one, except I used black foil for the poinsettia panel. This card is top folding and I added the embossed panel to the front, I added another sentiment from the same Spellbinders set I used on the second one.