Poinsettia Winter Wishes

This is "Poinsettia Winter Wishes".

This card I did for the Inspiration challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com. This week we are visiting Frankie Print Co. My inspiration came from this powder room.

*Adding: I did not make it clear that I first spritz my cardstock front and back with water, then place it in the embossing folder and run through using my Gemini Jr., which I do twice to ensure a good emboss.

To colour I used Copic markers in various shades of pink, being R11, R20, R22, R30 and R14, colouring in a loose style.

 For the Poinsettia centre I sprinkled a bit of Perfect Pearls Sunflower Sparkle on my work top, and added a bit of water then painted the flower centres in the gold.

For my card base I picked Taylored Expressions Cupcake cardstock in that pretty pale pink. To the card base I attached the Poinsettia panel using foam tape.

I then added Studio Katia gold gems around the flowers of the Poinsettia, to mimic the flower centres using Art Glitter glue to adhere.

In my mini Misti I stamped the sentiment taken from the Woodware Winter Trees stamp set, using Delicata Golden Glitz ink.

After trimming the sentiment panel, I applied foam squares to the back and attached it to the card base.

It has been awhile since I coloured an embossing folder in this manner, so it was a nice change, especially given I have been building my ink pad holder, which takes a long time believe it or not. 

Here is a quick peek, yes I am really building it! This picture shows some of the core board weighing down a newly glued box for the ink pads.

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