Hello crafty friends. I hope you’ve had a good weekend – I’ve been recovering from all yesterday’s excitement today! I made this card at the end of last week, when a friend & I caught up for an online session together. She’d got Jayne’s Floral Sampler out for some last minute cards and I realised I hadn’t used it in ages, so that was one less decision to make!

I opted to pair up the two poinsettia images (they’re at the bottom left of the sampler set), but first used a square embedder to emboss a frame onto the front of a 5×5 card blank. I then lined up the poinsettia with the name towards the bottom of the framed area, stamped it in Archival black ink and covered it with a piece of piece of Clarity’s blank mask material that I’d cut to size. I could then stamp the poinsettia with the fir branches over the mask, so it sat behind the first image.

On then to my Polychromo pencils to shade the poinsettias (did you know these aren’t petals, they’re called bracts!) using ‘rose carmine’ and ‘madder’, dry blending them together with one of Clarity’s blending nibs.

I shaded the first branches with the ‘pine needles’ Polychromo (I just went over each of the stamped lines with the pencil) and used a fine gold Posca pen to dot the centres. Finally, I traced each of the lines on the bracts with a Quickie glue pen and scattered Perga glitter over them.

I do love a bit of sparkle! I actually made several of these, so they’re now sitting in my 2026 stash box – nothing like an early start! I’m also going to share this with a couple of blog challenges – Sparkles Christmas want poinsettia and Cardz4Galz are looking for Christmas sparkle. job done!