Christmas EmbellishmentsCompleted by Glenys Linehan

Uploaded the files to Design Space and resized them to fit my project and changed the mat colours to the colours I wanted to cut out from.

I cut out the Ivy from Dark Green 300 gsm cardstock and the Holly from a lighter green duplicating them.

The Poinsetta I cut out from red double sided lightweight cardstock and the Rose from white again duplicating them. As the flowers were so small I could not cut the stamens out from yellow card. I created a Gate Fold card from a piece of A4 300 gsm Christmas cardstock I had which had a very faint design on it.

I glued the Ivy at the bottom of the card. I embossed the petals of the Poinsetta to give them some shape and glued them together in the centre staggering the petals and left them to dry.

I embossed the petals of the Rose to give them some shape and then glued them together in the centre and left those to dry while I coloured the small centres with green pen and embossed them too.

I then glued these to the white petals in the centre again staggering them. Once the flowers were dry I used the embossing tool and mat to bring the flowers upwards (additional photo 1) and then glued them in place.

I then used some of the Holly I had cut out to create the top spray and glued these in place.

I added red glitter glue to the berries and created the centres of the flowers using gold glitter glue drawing some of the glue upwards with a pin on the Rose to give the effect of the stamens.

I added an insert to the inside using dst.